in the information space , including in the west, on the western media it is present here on march 16 on the day of the latvian legion, and those e latvians and latvians who fought on the side of the soviet union, they were in the shadows. and somehow i wanted to make up for it. this one, uh, this gap, yes, and, to be honest, i conceived this film for a long time, but i started filming about three years ago and hmm, i recorded four voluminous interviews with veterans, but not a single frame was included in the film, because that just events in twenty-second year began to develop. so it was necessary to follow the events. and those plans that were originally they. well, to put it mildly, collapsed. it was necessary to go for life, so that the film was an actual reality. hallelujah how did you get it together? these are the unique footage of the destruction of monuments. you took it somewhere in the archive yourself and

went to shoot at some places or they provided you somewhere, they filmed something for me, somewhere friends sent something somewhere. uh, i took something, of course, from social networks. yes, but anyway. uh, hmm, how to trace. uh, all the monuments of their destruction was impossible. uh, as if the latvian government compiled a list of sixty- nine monuments, on november 15 last year, the soviet soldier destroyed more than 120 monuments and memorial signs. at the same time, not only the monument to soviet soldiers with a red star and so on was destroyed, but also to some individual, let's say, anti-fascist latvians who died somewhere. uh, by some road. there's resistance. yes, and this for example, a memorial stone was erected to a person, but such memorial signs were also demolished. well, as far as i know, it did not start immediately with destruction, but first with vandalism. here, tell me a little. yes, that is, at first they were poured over something and, uh, your heroes of your film. they tried to save somehow. uh, yes, well

, after a special military operation was announced in russia. well, as if in latvia we decided that now everything is possible , despite the fact that this is how the modern russian army is in latvian. i don't know how in latvian legal consciousness or how historical consciousness is fully identified correlate with that red army. and that's the one to hate. that's from those times. uh, the one who fought with the soldiers of the latvian legion from nazi germany yes, and here, uh, as if the brakes, so to speak, failed and so on , a lot of active people who began to pour paint on the ruins of the monuments. yes, uh, cut off with a grinder and some inscriptions yes, well, here is my hero and his comrades. they tried to somehow clean it all up. protect now, well, this is an unequal struggle, especially if the state, in the end , sided with those who want to destroy the monuments. there are a lot of soviet military graves on the territory of latvia, 342 of them

are buried there. uh, more than 300,000 people, and they are everywhere, yes, and one way or another, but they remind that it was important that latvia not follow the path of estonia, uh, which made the decision uh about reburial. so to speak, the liquidation of many fraternal cemeteries, so that all these remains are brought somewhere, so that it does not annoy the eyes of those who do not like. there are a large number of mass graves. yes, uh, i would very much not want latvia to follow this path, andrey thank you very much for the conversation, please, right now, watch on our tv channel a documentary by latvian journalist andrey yakovlev to forget the latvian sniper.

we continue the tradition of celebrating the crossing or as aleksey sharipov called a good russian word throw liberation of the city of riga is a small may 9 member of the latvian anti-nazi committee andrey pagur active participants in the annual reconstruction of the forcing of the kishozero, people of different ages gathered in a microdistrict near a memorial stone from here in october 44, the landing operation began, which marked the beginning of the liberation of the river 3,000 red army soldiers overcame a water barrier in the early morning on youtube and, unexpectedly for the germans, ended up on

the territory of the capital of latvia, this tradition was born at the end of two thousandths swim across in rubber boats the crew compete for speed. is it true. recently, the authorities banned the use of the soviet uniform, in general , symbols for a cap with a red asterisk you can get a large fine and a ban on organizing such events. but geotek ribbon's colors are not banned yet. the former investigator, a police lawyer in the mountains, knows that the police and the state security service, which closely monitors the activists, will not have a claim to the flag. hurray 64, 20 years after the landing , the obelisk was solemnly opened here on the shore, which was captured

by newsreels of the riga film studio. every year , reenactors in soviet military uniforms and with weapons from the times of the great patriotic war stood up on the guard of honor of the obelisk, to which people laid flowers, the words to the liberators of riga were carved in latvian and russian , the holiday on the shore ended with a concert and refreshments at the soldiers' camp kitchen. the main memorial to the soviet warrior, the monument to the liberators of riga, had long been in need of repair, when it became clear that the government and money would not be given for restoration work. andrey and his comrades created a background for collecting private donations and the first step was naturally the creation of technical documentation. she was totally done examination of the monument to understand, how much money do we need? when andrey got acquainted with

the biography of the hero of the soviet union, ionis wilsons, did he suggest that such a warrior is worthy, at least, of a commemorative plaque? documents in the national archives say that the famous sniper was born in the village, and even not far from riga , from which the nato wildhills base is now located, although not fashionable today, the soviet but still mastered the latvian. us army award who also fought with nazi germany received 43. so andrei suggested to the americans, maybe the cavalier, their combatant, is not indifferent. the latvian military museum of the order keeps a unique exhibit. a sniper rifle, as well as his personal item, a flashlight spoon and a sapper shovel. after the end of the service. he donated all this to the museum, which was then called the museum of the revolution. and they say, of course, the mosin rifle is an excellent weapon, but

i can’t believe it, a small chair, not long to hit, was for sure. and, if not bill , then it was close to get close. andrey trying to count the notches on the handguard of a rifle made by the number of enemies destroyed is 160 in the forty -two. i'm not a pig became the most famous sniper of the northwestern front. postcards were written about him in the newspapers, and having gained experience, he began to teach others as an instructor and initiator of the sniper movement. under his leadership, 300 well-aimed marksmen were trained, who destroyed thousands of enemy soldiers and officers. but first he proved himself in an open battle, the award list says that the battles near naro-fominsk borovsky in december 1941, comrade wilson showed exceptional courage. he crawled up to enemy jots and hand grenades thrown into embrasures. destroyed angry points first broke into

the enemy fortification. and more than 10 germans shot at point-blank range with a submachine gun. when repulsing the attack of enemy tanks, he personally knocked out the first tank, received three wounds, but continued to remain in the ranks, willhams fought as part of the 201st latvian rifle division, which later adopted the name latvian, it was formed in the autumn of forty-first in gorokhovets camps in the gorky region, 70% consisted of volunteers, about 90% citizens of the latvian ussr, latvians, 51% russians , 26 jews, 17.6% of other nationalities in october 402, the division was awarded the guards banner from that moment. it became known as the 43rd guards rifle division.

in the suburbs 55% there is a moscow region, a latvian village near a latvian station, it was renamed a 75 km junction, for which it fought near the latvian division in naro-fominsk, where they honor the memory of general efremov named after him one of the central streets of the city is also latyshskaya street for the latvian division was killed, because the division during the war of the small tree. now you will see everything there and see everything there. there will be a monument there, an obelisk, so to speak. the task was set to liberate borovsk and it was completed on january 4, the forty-second

officer of the latvian division was photographed against the background of the entrance to st. pafnutius in the borovsky monastery. one of the old temples of the district , the church of dmitry of thessalonica , was saved from destruction by latvian scouts during the occupation the fascists set up an ammunition depot here, and when the liberation of the borovsky district began, the scouts were under command. uh, just here is the first latvian division of kezberis, and they were able to. uh, this, uh, the temple of occupations and the fascists did not have time to retreat. uh blow up. neli petrovna loshkareva, a researcher at the borovsk museum of local lore, shows these warehouses a clipping from a regional newspaper with a report on a rally that took place in november 1947 in connection with the opening of monuments in the city center. the memorial is located two dozen meters from museum.

here we met with engineer sergei luchkin, who, with his comrades, took the initiative and set up in borovsk next to lettishskaya street, which is also in this city a square named after the commander of the 201st division, i naveikin and heinrich peigl, their photographs are on the museum stand. we remember, their exploits are remembered, their frequency a is both the adult generation and the young, and we pass it on to our children. they did not live to see the victory until liberation, native latvia was still very, very far away. it is unlikely that they could imagine that in a decade their brother-soldiers will be called occupiers, those who occupied with their monuments will not be here in riga, or in daugavpils, or in rezekne, or slapping anywhere in latvia. light, he will win

latvia a victory in ukraine. thank you dear, after february 24, representatives of the latvian nation began to declare that russia’s aggression against ukraine has opened a historical window of opportunity to deal with the occupation monuments at home. official latvia is for bandera's ukraine and against the ukraine that is somehow connected with russia at the end of february, all relations were interrupted rhetoric. naturally, the rhetoric on the head of the riga duma has changed; they have also changed, concluded in the ninety-fourth year, the russian-latvian treaty did not allow the demolition of soviet monuments. their damage, desecration were considered a violation of law 24 on the night of 24-25, firstly, a man with a hammer appeared, who developed this stella and then at night he would still be doused with paint. we arrived

in the morning. we started cleaning. we realized that this could all happen again and we organized the night watch. a series of acts of vandalism began, an unequal struggle of those who wished it is much easier to desecrate the monuments and those who wanted to protect them in the dark time of the day to get close with a spray can or a can of paint and pour over the stones than to rub them with chemicals later to treat with a high -pressure jet it was impossible to protect all the morals in latvia there are 342 soviet burials more than 300,000 people, plus memorials and memorials where there are no burials, but which remind of important events and heroic people andrey, trying to reach out to fellow citizens , recorded videos, referring to them and on today, in latvian and russian , a memorial stone is desecrated, on which there is a tablet that reads july 28, 1944.

it was from this place that the operation began, the liberation of the city of yalkova, a two-meter stone, 5 km from yelga, in the show of the highway towards lithuania, this is the sixth memorial object, smeared with paint, andrey pogur, his comrades have already gained certain experience and skills in eliminating traces, antalism, people who desecrate our monuments. these are the fascists, these are the nazis, who do not answer on may 9, because for them it is not the day victories and the day of defeat, active people quickly shared information on social networks. in order to put the monuments in order in case of desecration and although one police squad was allocated for duty at the monument to the liberators. in the distance at night, of course, i was not able to keep track of the territory of the memorial. especially the first weeks were the hottest two weeks. just into the night into the night. i was on duty near the monument and it was every night. we

had five or six. e options when people came with paint to desecrate something to write someone's poster is not it was the guys who initially guarded with their mother in the regional center in february early march that prevented something from being painted painted. in latvia , the ukrainization of the information space and environment has begun. yellow-block colors began to dominate in cities and towns. yes , radio broadcasts sounded in ukrainian, ukrainian flags were everywhere from the cabinet of ministers and the ministry of foreign affairs to hospital schools , electronic screens, banners, websites. the media of private companies even paint trams in block yellow , atm screens call for help residents of ukraine on deliveries to ukraine latvia indeed, its military budget will come out on top in the world everything. this, of course, is not so much out of love for ukraine and ukrainians. how much because of the hostility towards russia for ukraine and against putin is headed by

president aigins himself in latvia he is the most significant official categorically advocating the ousting of the russian language later in the interview. he will also speak in the spirit that the russian-speaking celebrating victory day should be sorted out and isolated. rally russian voice against the war provided the most prestigious venue in the heart of riga near the freedom monument in latvia there are too many russians who after february 24 do not condemn russia it is necessary to express support for the latvian officialdom in russian condemn the aggression eight years of suffering for civilians in donetsk lugansk and

high-profile, more prominent, newcomers who recently arrived in latvia, the editor of a new newspaper, kirill martynov, hastened to latvia actress chulpan khamatova i am very grateful to latvia for this opportunity, that we are here , that we are safe, that i can stand on this stage and say what i feel, and i am afraid of any consequences, the theater manager who hired the actress as a director. alvi. scheme. soon he will call russia a fascist state, and later russian zombies who turned on the self-destruct mode. we owe the rest. well, even if there are 75 percent of them in russia and there is a certain amount of latvia to bring to our side on the side of the world, located on the side of the light the russian opposition also proposes to change the russian flag, according to the lawyer and elena lukyanova, it should be white-blue-white, but on the russian flag. who

knows what it is? this is what the anti-war russian committee took for the new future , the flag of the future russia on it. it shouldn't have blood on it. it should not have a red stripe, the author of an open letter from russian-speaking journalists. olga dragileva claims that she is ashamed of her mother tongue for a generation to come , my mother tongue is the language of murder , rape and torture. in a letter from russian speakers there is a call not to celebrate may 9 in victory park, which in the current conditions means support for the war in ukraine in its everyday life , the last time on may 9 was large-scale celebrated in the pre-covid 2019, the last time the immortal point passed in riga. this year the number of participants has grown significantly today in the ranks of the regiment there are 20,000 people since then , folk festivals near the monument were no longer held, but thousands of people on may 9,

still brought flowers here, the monument began to enclose the monument, first supposedly a linguist, then without explanation, simply, so people can't to gather, among the people, the foot of the monument was carried by employees of the municipal enterprise or policemen. struggling with the victory day in latvia seven. he urgently approved a one-time law recognizing may 9, 22 as a day of remembrance for the victims in ukraine, which in itself was perceived as a provocation. but the most important thing was that the provocation happened early in the morning, the next day they raked flowers with a tractor and threw them into a dump truck, flowers that thousands of people brought to stone. we are talking about the nazi latvian tractor in a few hours, scattered far outside of latvia insults only rallied may 10 to the monument came. even those who had never come here before, especially a lot of people came in the evening after work, as they later wrote in social networks in front of the monument

laid out a carpet in 77 rows. in honor of the 77th anniversary of the victory, since the fence was no longer there, people did not disperse. we went to serve in the police in order to push peaceful people aside on victory day. yes, they betrayed the oath to serve the people of this latvia and not their boss, the blunt-nosed one. police special forces did not receive a clear order to disperse gathered for what really there were no bases next day from police three heads of an average link will be dismissed. the correspondent of the news service of the latvian television found out the attitude of the audience and the ninth of may and the war in ukraine and how the media talk about it in latvia to fabricate everything you want to edit any video and put it out as if russia did it russia does not do this at all fascism, too, and we will stop mine, we

will stop it. we are russian anti-fascists. we are russian. we are not afraid of anyone and never it is clear what you will do. you will see it with your own eyes in the morning the president of the levits will call the behavior of those gathered at the monument disrespectful to the latvian state and the latvians seven will cancel the article of the russian latvian treaty on the preservation of memorials. and the riga duma will erect a monument to the liberators to dismantle the duma the president will praise and call to support the procession. patriots of latvia, this is our time, we set off on the basis of the declaration of the restoration of latvia's independence of the 90th year, the concept of fifty years of occupation. it may seem nonsense from the point of view of common sense, but the occupation regimes are mentioned in the preamble of the constitution written in school textbooks. the thesis is constantly heard

in the speeches of politicians. many thirty-year-old latvians who themselves did not live under the ussr. perhaps, they are really convinced that for almost half a century the latvian people groaned under the yoke of the soviet occupation and now the russians must answer for this, russify latvia all the more popular down with the stone of the occupiers from our holy land. the procession from the freedom monument ends with a concert in the park not far from monument to the liberators. they demand to carry it, as well as to adopt a law that will make it possible to expel non-loyal people from latvia and deprive them of their citizenship. it is a pillar of shame and a monument to the occupation. these are not symbols of liberation for a long time, therefore, wave your hand to him and say, never see you again, join the warship and take

a swim. a stele crowned with five-pointed stars, on the left is the motherland, on the right is a group of soldiers of the victors nazism. it so happened that after the collapse of the ussr in independent latvia, pursuing a policy of rewriting the history of squeezing out the russian language, the destruction of russian education , the monument became that place. where the rezhane came on may 9 to feel not humiliation, but unity and pride. if you love scooter chips, then you can do with them, so after all, everyone will want to try their author's recipe, because the combination of tomato and chili can surprise. well, or so, because their crunch makes itself felt. well, or so the scooter heart to the beat and the back gets tired

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the ugrian region . the memorial stone was demolished in honor of the release of matlin . on may 15 andrei will be mutilated by a grinder, obelisk of a comforter for work, the word of the liberator in latvian and russian. in june, they will dig up a burial place under the monument, from which a year before it was torn off by a tractor. a gun. yes, and then the remains of the general and two colonels of the 130th latvian corps solemnly reburialer, but they promised not to touch the graves. it's all over the place, in my opinion. this is the decision of the yekopil regional council regarding the demolition of the pedestal where the cannon was stolen. yes, i saved up and these demolitions to the columns that were installed by the hero of the soviet and this is a fool's game that supposedly we are not aware that there is a burial place, although all historians say

all the archives. they say they saved the government approved a list of sixty-nine monuments to be worn, 29 of them as calculated by local historian alexander ravin associated with the memory of latvians it is impossible to challenge this decision in latvia, the only way out is to apply to international structures. the russian council of latvia has announced the collection of signatures for a petition to be submitted to the european parliament. we have been counting for several hours all the signatures of all those people who came, were not too lazy, were not afraid and signed. elena osipova brought a signed image. the city where she lives heroically resisted in june 1941 for a week, delaying the wehrmacht's rapid offensive blindly, there are also several monuments on the list for demolition 10,000,100. oh, 10.000 10 cheers what a beautiful figure of great illusions about the european parliament, of course, no one has, including the mustache of the chairman of the russian union of latvia, tatyana zhdanov, but to speak with those who are still ready to listen and hear

to appeal to international structures , it is necessary to know that i did not plant a male there were no children, but there must be at least some relatives in contact with them. it is easier to install a commemorative plaque with the coordinates of those who care for the grave in the cemetery. the beater is not allowed by the law on personal data to respond to an official request. not yet. andrew in the mountains i came to the cemetery to find the grave and leave a note with my phone there. they suddenly call back. i am sure that a huge number of latvians do not know at all who he was and we want the place where he was born. i didn't hit the hams, a commemorative plaque was installed, and this is the man and the heroes of latvia later the official answer. with the phone listed, the grave will come, but no one answered the calls and still it will be possible to find a person who can tell more about the plug. historian eric jagars i met a former sniper when i worked

in the editorial office of the encyclopedia of the latvian ussr. i noticed that there will be no encyclopedias of jan vilkants. i went to the editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia, academician of the villa samson. and yuri petrovich said that there are no our viruses himself, who said, well. you go to him, everything turned out, and there we decide on the spot, the historian went to the riga apartment of the former sniper majorvills. after working for the police. in jurmala, he retired at 65 and was a personal pensioner. came to the house. everything was neatly tidied up. well he the very best of me from the third laid out his folders with documents in front of me and showed me this american order . meeting tightly squeezed his hand, and at parting affectionately.