1/ Today, March 16, #Latvia arranges a procession of #WaffenSS legionnaires and their followers. More than 100 people will take part in the event, which has already become a tradition for Riga.
2/ Former SS men and their sympathizers will march from the Church of St. John to the Freedom Monument, where a flower laying ceremony is planned.
3/ On this occasion, the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, decided once again to recall the role of the Latvian legionnaires "in the struggle for the independence of Latvia."
4/ “The hope for an independent Latvia was the common basis that connected the various participants in the national resistance in time and space, various currents of resistance, such as school youth, ...
5/ ...the Central Council of #Latvia, Latvian national partisans and other heroes of the resistance,” the President said.
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