Private property is a complex issue, especially considering it didn't exist for 50 years. Despite laws that govern the denationalization of land, Latvia is finding that establishing ownership is no simple task, as Katya Cengel reports.It was a nice idea: give land and property back to those from whom it was taken under Soviet nationalization policies.But the results have been anything but simple and nice. Beginning in 1990, a year before Latvia's independence, the country started trying to undo 45 years worth of injustice - when private land was wrested from owners and nationalized by the S...
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