[10] Alksnis's grandmother spent 14 years in labor camps and his father was discriminated for being the son of an "enemy of the people".

[11] During the destalinization of late 1950s Yakov Alksnis was posthumously rehabilitated; the Air Forces college in Riga was named in his honour.

Despite these Stalin-era persecutions of his family members, Viktor Alksnis became a staunch supporter of the Soviet political system.

[12] Viktor Alksnis was a strong opponent of the breakup of the Soviet Union and of the independence of the Baltic States.

Alksnis was one of the leaders of the National Salvation Front that united nationalist and communist movements that opposed Yeltsin's policies.

In 2005, he was named persona non grata in Ukraine as well, after he called for a Russian-Ukrainian border revision while speaking at a rally in Simferopol, Crimea.

Alksnis met with project coordinator Aleksey Bragin to promote the development of the ReactOS operating system.