Waidewut
04-05-2012, 07:56 PM
A national census that was conducted in the Soviet Union in 1926 found 151,410 Latvians living there. 18,346 of them lived in Leningrad and its environs, 10,583 were in the Pskov District, 10,167 worked in Moscow, and 35,069 were living in Siberia. There were at least 372 Latvian colonies in the USSR with 12,000 farms.
Latvians have scattered around to all of the corners of the earth over the last several centuries. Some were driven out for refusing to obey the powers that prevailed. Some had a visions of a better life, while still others fled war and revolution. It was not always the case that these emigres found an easier life for themselves, but there was only one place where a thorough anti-Latvian campaign was waged. There, each and every Latvian was treated as a spy, a traitor and an enemy who deserved to be tortured and then shot. These were the repressions which were waged in Soviet Russia in 1937, where the horror and pathological thinking of the regime turned some Latvians into betrayers and murderers of their own kind.
The "Latvian Operation" began with orders issued on November 30, 1937, by Nikolai Yezhov, head of Stalin's feared secret police, the NKVD. A total of 22,360 people were arrested, and 74% were put to death. The main target for the operation was Latvians, but Soviet citizens of other nationalities who were accused of spying on Latvia's behalf also fell victim to the purge. Most of the victims, however, were innocents whose only guilt was to be Latvian in the Soviet Union. The heroes of this film are the heirs to people who fell victim to Stalin's great purges. They were interviewed in Moscow, Kemerovo, the Krasnoyarsk District, and also Latvia.
An interesting documentary about the genocide done on Latvian people in the USSR, during the the year of 1937.
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Latvians have scattered around to all of the corners of the earth over the last several centuries. Some were driven out for refusing to obey the powers that prevailed. Some had a visions of a better life, while still others fled war and revolution. It was not always the case that these emigres found an easier life for themselves, but there was only one place where a thorough anti-Latvian campaign was waged. There, each and every Latvian was treated as a spy, a traitor and an enemy who deserved to be tortured and then shot. These were the repressions which were waged in Soviet Russia in 1937, where the horror and pathological thinking of the regime turned some Latvians into betrayers and murderers of their own kind.
The "Latvian Operation" began with orders issued on November 30, 1937, by Nikolai Yezhov, head of Stalin's feared secret police, the NKVD. A total of 22,360 people were arrested, and 74% were put to death. The main target for the operation was Latvians, but Soviet citizens of other nationalities who were accused of spying on Latvia's behalf also fell victim to the purge. Most of the victims, however, were innocents whose only guilt was to be Latvian in the Soviet Union. The heroes of this film are the heirs to people who fell victim to Stalin's great purges. They were interviewed in Moscow, Kemerovo, the Krasnoyarsk District, and also Latvia.
An interesting documentary about the genocide done on Latvian people in the USSR, during the the year of 1937.
PDkNSzjdU6s
WiEZFjX_EYA
MhpV1iOR8k0
GtMOdJJL_gc