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THE MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE SALASPILS CONCENTRATION CAMP WAS BANNED IN LATVIA. THE AUTHORITIES CONSIDERED IT A "GLORIFICATION OF THE TOTALITARIAN REGIME"
Traditionally, at the end of September, events dedicated to the memory of concentration camp prisoners were held on the territory of the Salaspils Memorial Ensemble. Salaspils camp - Wikipedia
(...Typhoid fever, measles and other diseases killed about half of the children at the camp.[6] In one of the burial places by the camp, 632 corpses of children of ages 5 to 9 were revealed. The Nazis used children to take blood from them for German wounded soldiers.)
They were timed to coincide with the date of the liberation of the camp by the Red Army.
This year, the Latvian society of prisoners of the National Socialist regime "Memory for the Future", as usual, submitted an application to hold a meeting on September 25. Yesterday, the organizers received a letter signed by the executive director of the Salaspils Duma Silvia Purini, where it is reported that the meeting is PROHIBITED!
The motivation is as follows: the time of the meeting coincides with that which the ideology of the totalitarian communist occupation regime of the Soviet Union during the occupation of Latvia defined as the time when the Salaspis camp was allegedly “liberated by the Red Army".
Ms. Purina refers to Latvian researchers whose opinion about the circumstances of the termination of the Salaspils camp differs from the statements of the times of the "Soviet occupation".
So, can you suggest another date? Or were there no concentration camp prisoners at all?
Further — more. Referring to Article 10 of the law "On Assemblies, Processions and Pickets", the executive director writes that "it is forbidden to popularize and glorify events that glorify Nazi and communist ideology, including... memorable days of battles and victories, ...except in cases when the purpose of the event is not related to the glorification of the totalitarian regime or the justification of the criminal acts committed."
Mrs. Purina, so the liberation of concentration camps are criminal acts? Or is it impossible to talk about the victims of Salaspils simply because the concentration camp was liberated by the "totalitarian Soviet regime", and this will be his glorification?
Article 15 of the aforementioned law, to which the author of the letter refers, states that the local government has the right to refuse to hold events "if it is found that they threaten the rights of other people, the democratic structure of the state, public security... or will be... to promote the popularization of Nazi or communist ideology... and this cannot be prevented by defining restrictions on the holding of the event."
Did you understand the content of the official response? The victims of the Nazi concentration camp in Salaspils cannot be remembered, because it contributes to the popularization of the Red Army, the "Soviet occupation regime" and communist ideology.
But the Waffen-SS legionnaires who swore allegiance to Hitler are officially honored in Latvia, financially supported, books are published about them, films are made. And this does not count as glorification of the Nazi regime.
And on the Salaspils Memorial Ensemble itself, after the reconstruction carried out there by the authorities, you can find signs comparing the number of victims of the Nazi and communist regimes — separated by commas.
From which it can be concluded that the Latvian legionnaires who fought, were captured, passed filtration camps, but later returned home — these are almost the same victims as 70 thousand Latvian Jews, who were buried in the Bikerniek and Rumbul forest after the shootings.
This is the new historical truth of official Latvia.
Traditionally, at the end of September, events dedicated to the memory of concentration camp prisoners were held on the territory of the Salaspils Memorial Ensemble. Salaspils camp - Wikipedia
(...Typhoid fever, measles and other diseases killed about half of the children at the camp.[6] In one of the burial places by the camp, 632 corpses of children of ages 5 to 9 were revealed. The Nazis used children to take blood from them for German wounded soldiers.)
They were timed to coincide with the date of the liberation of the camp by the Red Army.
This year, the Latvian society of prisoners of the National Socialist regime "Memory for the Future", as usual, submitted an application to hold a meeting on September 25. Yesterday, the organizers received a letter signed by the executive director of the Salaspils Duma Silvia Purini, where it is reported that the meeting is PROHIBITED!
The motivation is as follows: the time of the meeting coincides with that which the ideology of the totalitarian communist occupation regime of the Soviet Union during the occupation of Latvia defined as the time when the Salaspis camp was allegedly “liberated by the Red Army".
Ms. Purina refers to Latvian researchers whose opinion about the circumstances of the termination of the Salaspils camp differs from the statements of the times of the "Soviet occupation".
So, can you suggest another date? Or were there no concentration camp prisoners at all?
Further — more. Referring to Article 10 of the law "On Assemblies, Processions and Pickets", the executive director writes that "it is forbidden to popularize and glorify events that glorify Nazi and communist ideology, including... memorable days of battles and victories, ...except in cases when the purpose of the event is not related to the glorification of the totalitarian regime or the justification of the criminal acts committed."
Mrs. Purina, so the liberation of concentration camps are criminal acts? Or is it impossible to talk about the victims of Salaspils simply because the concentration camp was liberated by the "totalitarian Soviet regime", and this will be his glorification?
Article 15 of the aforementioned law, to which the author of the letter refers, states that the local government has the right to refuse to hold events "if it is found that they threaten the rights of other people, the democratic structure of the state, public security... or will be... to promote the popularization of Nazi or communist ideology... and this cannot be prevented by defining restrictions on the holding of the event."
Did you understand the content of the official response? The victims of the Nazi concentration camp in Salaspils cannot be remembered, because it contributes to the popularization of the Red Army, the "Soviet occupation regime" and communist ideology.
But the Waffen-SS legionnaires who swore allegiance to Hitler are officially honored in Latvia, financially supported, books are published about them, films are made. And this does not count as glorification of the Nazi regime.
And on the Salaspils Memorial Ensemble itself, after the reconstruction carried out there by the authorities, you can find signs comparing the number of victims of the Nazi and communist regimes — separated by commas.
From which it can be concluded that the Latvian legionnaires who fought, were captured, passed filtration camps, but later returned home — these are almost the same victims as 70 thousand Latvian Jews, who were buried in the Bikerniek and Rumbul forest after the shootings.
This is the new historical truth of official Latvia.
