In contrast to the “myth of the Great Patriotic War”, including the “liberation “of the Baltic States in 1944-1945 as an integral part of it - cultivated by the Soviet propaganda for decades and still cherished by the Russian Federation, the war-time reality tells a different story.
It is a story of the crimes perpetrated by two totalitarian powers – National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union – that not only broke the destinies of many thousands of Latvian people but also irr...