We talked in the previous post about Nazi politicians or with Nazi sympathies in Lithuania, now it’s Latvia’s turn.
As we mentioned, these pseudo countries were never really independent, they were always part of Germany or Russia or other countries, in the last 500 years, but the communist rulers took advantage of the fall of the USSR to create their own garden where they and their relatives and acquaintances ruled and not someone from outside.
In the brief period in which they were independent from the Russian revolution to WWII, from 1920 to 1940, their history could not be more painful, collaborators with the Nazis and willing murderers of the Jews. Curiously now they want all that to be forgotten.
One example :
The Rumbula massacre* is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during the Holocaust. Except for the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine , this was the biggest two-day Holocaust atrocity until the operation of the death camps . About 24,000 of the victims were Latvian Jews from the Riga Guetto and approximately 1,000 were German Jews transported to the forest by train. The Rumbula massacre was carried out by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe A with the help of local collaborators of the Arajs Kommando , with support from other such Latvian auxiliaries. In charge of the operation
| Herberts Cukurs |
was Hoherer SS und Plizeifuhrer Friedich Jeckeln, who had previously overseen similar massacres in Ukraine . Rudolf Lange , who later participated in the Wannsee Cogferrence , also took part in organizing the massacre. Some of the accusations against Latvian Herberts Cukurs are related to the clearing of the Riga Ghetto by the Arajs Kommando.
* Wikipedia
There were many others massacresLiepaja Massacres, Daugavpils Ghetto, Jelgava Massacres, Burning of the Riga Synagogues, Dünamünde, etc.
Professor Vaira Vike-Freiberga plays an essential role in this mechanism. The family of this Canadian, who fled Latvia when the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler fell, was linked to the Nazi agents of NATO’s stay-behind networks through a clandestine association Nazi agents of NATO’s stay-behind networks through a clandestine association
| Vaira Vike-Freiberga |
destined to the Diaspora: the Hawks of Daugava River (Daugavas Vanagi). Meanwhile, the family of her husband, Imants Freibergs, was linked to the MI6 in Germany at the end of World War II. Vike-Freiberga, Psychology professor at the University of Toronto, specialist in the influence of drugs on human behavior, settled in Riga in early 1999 and acquired the Latvian citizenship. Then, in the spring, she was elected President of the Republic, winning a second term four years later.
The Latvian Legion was created in January 1943 on the orders of Adolf Hitler following a request by Heinrich Himmler , the head of the SS . The initial core of the force was populated by Latvian Police Batallions
L, which were formed starting in 1941 earlier for security duties and already serving on the Eastern Front under Wehrmacht command. While members of Holocaust collaborator Arajs Kommando were subsequently joined to the Legion, this was late in the war as the Kommando was demobilized from anti-partisan and anti-Jewish action, with the first former Arajs unit attached to the Legion in December, 1944
| The Latvian Legion |
In 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal declared the Waffen-SS to be a criminal organization. The participation of some members of the legion in The Holocaust , including 600 were also members of the Arajs Kommando , and the legion’s inclusion of members of the Latvian fascist movement Perkonkrusts and Holocaust participants, has led to accusations that, under international military law, the legion met the criteria for a criminal organization and/or that a significant proportion of its members, were directly or indirectly involved in war crimes. It has also been claimed that soldiers of the legion were involved in a massacre of Polish POWs at Podgaje , in 1945.Scholars such as Leanid Kazyrytski have argued that the Latvian Legion does possess all the features of a criminal organisation, as defined by the Tribunal.
| March of veterans of Latvian Legion and suppotters |
Despite all of the above,although it may seem incredible the Latvian governments continue to support the exaltation of war criminals through marches and monuments and violating the rights of the Russian-speaking population in the face of the indiffe
Holocaust and WWII in the East 
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