and in a few minutes we will show a documentary by a latvian journalist on our tv channel. andrey yakovleva he is in the studio for me today andrey hello, andrey tell me please, i know that the film was conceived under a different vector from the very beginning. to be honest, i 've been wanting to make a movie about the 43rd guards latin division for a long, long time. and even more so since i have some personal motive for my baby once serving there, whom i did not know. uh, well, in general, here i am a citizen of latvia and , uh, latvia in recent years. all recent years in fact, in the information space , including the western one in the western media, it

is present here on march 16 on the day of the latvian legion, and those 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, struck this one, yes, and i, frankly, have long conceived this film, but three years ago i started shooting and i had four recorded. clever interviews with veterans, but not a single frame was included in the film, because the events in the twenty-second year simply became 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 in order for the film to be relevant. how did you manage to put it together? that's it, these unique shots of the destruction of monuments, and you took somewhere in the archive yourself

and went to shoot on some or they provide 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 to soviet soldiers on the fifteenth of november last year, more than 120 monuments and memorial signs were destroyed. at the same time, not only the monument to a soviet soldier 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 man, for example, was given a memorial stone, but this kind of commemorative signs were also demolished, how much it changed not immediately with destruction, but first with vandalism. here tell a little bit, yes. that is, at first they doused it with 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 we decided in latvia that now everything is possible , despite the fact that this is how the modern russian army would be in latvian. i don't know how in latvian legal consciousness or how historical consciousness fully identifiable 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 so, uh, as if the brakes, by the way, failed and so on, a lot of active people who began to pour paint on the ruins of 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, save it , protect it, well, this is an unequal struggle, especially if the state eventually became. on the side of those who want to destroy monuments on the territory of latvia, there are a lot of soviet military graves, 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 you 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 can be brought somewhere, so that it does not annoy the eyes of those who do not like it. e a large number of fraternal burials. yes, uh, i would very much not want latvia to go, so 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, the liberation of the city of riga is small on may 9, a member of the latvian anti-nazi committee, andrey pagur, active participants in the annual reconstruction of the crossing of the lake 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, found themselves on the territory of the capital of latvia, this tradition

was born at the end of two thousandths they crossed on rubber boats. crews 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 can get a large fine and a ban on organizing such events. her 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. 64th, 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 on the guard of honor of the obelisk, to which people they laid flowers words words to the liberators of riga were carved in latvian and russian languages ​​the holiday ended on the shore the main memorial to the soviet soldier the monument to the liberators of riga had long been in need of repair , when it became clear that the authorities and money would not be given for restoration work andrey and his comrades created a background for collecting private donations and the first stage - it was naturally the creation of technical documentation. she was entirely to make a survey of the monument to understand how much money we need when andrei met biography of the hero of the soviet union, i’m not

a sovinsons, he suggested what a warrior is worthy, at least a commemorative plaque? documents in the national archives say that the famous sniper was born in the village, and even near riga, not far from which the nato base wilfields is now located, although not fashionable today, the soviet but still mastered the latvian. in addition, the holder of the american cross for outstanding merit the award of the us army, which also fought nazi germany, received 43. so andrei suggested to the americans, he may not be indifferent cavalier, their combat. 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. i 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 he didn’t hit far, he began to get close. andrei is trying to count the notches on the rifle handguard, made according to the number of enemies destroyed, if you count by tens, in the course of 160 42. 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 open combat. the award list says that in the battles near naro-fominsk borovsk in december of the forty-first year, comrade wilson showed exceptional courage and bravery he sees. he crawled back to enemy bunkers and hand grenades thrown into embrasures. destroyed angry points first broke into the enemy fortification. and point-blank

shot more than 10 germans 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, wilfens 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 the gorokhovets camps in gorkovskaya region by 70% volunteers were about 90% citizens of the latvian ussr latvians 51% russians 26 jews, 17% of other nationalities in october 402 the guards banner was awarded to the division from that moment on. it became known as the 43rd guards latvian rifle division.

401 types of front-line soldiers, the division operated as part of the 33rd army under the command of general mikhail efremov, the enemy was driven back from the capital , many trophies were captured, the prisoners' losses of the division during the battles near moscow amounted to 55% there are moscow region, a village the latvian station is nearby, the latvian station, the 75 km junction was renamed into it, for which it fought near the latvian division in naro-fominsk , where general efremov is honored in his honor , one of the central streets of the city is named after him , there is also a latvian street division during the war rifle diet. the first one will see everything there and see everything there. there will be a monument there, an obelisk, so anyway, we even had a sister city. yes, the pizza corner was tasked by minsk with the task of freeing borovsk and she it was carried out on january 4. the forty-second officer

of the latvian division was photographed against the background of the entrance to the saints 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 nazis set up ammunition depots 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. these warehouses nelly petrovna lyshkareva, a researcher at the borovsk museum of local lore, shows 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 the 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 in the 201st division, i naveikin and heinrich peigl, their photos are at 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. and the nshi ivanovs and the petrovs, the katz and the zilbermans did not live to see the victory before liberation, their native latvia was still very, very far away. it is unlikely that they could imagine that in a decade their brother-soldiers would be called occupiers, those who occupied with their monuments would not be here in riga either in the daugavp or in the cutter. no matter where in latvia he stole sveta. victory for latvia victory for ukraine

thank you dear february representatives the latvian nation, the elites began to declare that russia's aggression against ukraine 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 by rhetoric. naturally, the rhetoric of the head of the riga duma has changed; they also changed, concluded in the ninety-fourth year, the russian-latvian treaty did not allow the demolition of soviet monuments. their damage defilement was considered a violation of laws 24 on the night of 24-25, firstly, a man with a hammer appeared, who smashed this stella and then at night it 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, fantasies began, an unequal struggle of those who wanted to desecrate the monuments and those who wanted to protect them . pressure to protect all morals was impossible on the territory of latvia, there are 342 soviet warriors. burials, where more than 300,000 people are buried, 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 both in latvian and in russian, today a memorial stone has been desecrated, on on which there is a sign that reads july 28, 1944. this is where the operation began. liberation of the city of yelgakov

a two-meter stone 5 km from the yogi in his highway, towards lithuania, this is the sixth memorial object, smeared with paint andrey pogur and 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 celebrate may 9, because for them it is not victory day, but 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 an outfit was allocated for duty at the monument to the liberators police one crew. in the distance at night, of course, 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 every night we had 5-6 options , when people came with paint

to desecrate someone to write something on a poster to prevent something from being painted painted it was the guys who prevented it, initially watch athletes. late february early march. ukrainization began in latvia information space and environment, yellow-block colors began to dominate in cities and towns , news broadcasts in ukrainian sounded on the radio , ukrainian flags were heard everywhere from the cabinet of ministers and the ministry of foreign affairs to hospital schools, electronic screens, banners , websites. the media of private companies are even painting trams in a yellow block, atm screens are calling to help the inhabitants of ukraine in deliveries to ukraine in latvia. indeed, everything in the world will come out on top of its military budget. this, of course, is not so much out of love for ukraine and ukrainians. how much due hostility towards russia for ukraine and against

putin is led by president aigins himself in latvia, he is the most significant official categorically advocating the ousting of the russian language later in an interview. he will also speak in the spirit that the russian-speaking celebrating victory day should be sorted out and isolated. the rally russian voice against the war was given 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 to condemn the aggression in russian, to try to convince the officialdom in this, as it were, an anti-war rally , of course, no one remembers the dead children of donbass eight years of suffering for civilians in donetsk lugansk and status, speaking more visitors who recently arrived in latvia, the editor

of new newspapers kirill martynov, an actress who hastened to latvia 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 head of the theater who hired the actress director alves with dick oni. soon he will call russia a fascist state, and later russian zombies, who turned on the self-destruction mode. not all russian orcs. 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 to the side of the world, the russian opposition, located on the side of the light, 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 rape murders. and in the letter of russian-speakers there is a call for torture not to celebrate may 9 in victory park, which in the current conditions means support for the war in ukraine in everyday life the last time on may 9 was celebrated on a large scale in pre-covid 2019, the last time the immortal path passed in riga then. 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 that people could not gather, flowers, cut, the foot of the monument were carried by employees of the municipal enterprise or the police fighting the victory day in latvia seven urgently approved a one-time law on the recognition of the ninth. 22 years of memory of 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 and threw flowers into a dump truck, which thousands of people brought to the stone. we are talking about the nazi latvian tractor in a few hours, scattered far beyond the borders of latvia, insults only rallied on may 10 to the monument. even those who i never went here before, especially a lot of people came. in the evening after work, as they later wrote in social networks, a carpet was laid out in front of the monument 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. the police special forces did not receive a clear order to disperse the crowd. for which there really was no reason the next day from the police will be fired three middle managers. the correspondent of the news service of the latvian television found out the attitude of the audience both to the ninth of may and to the war in ukraine and to the way they tell the deaths. what do you want to mount any video and expose as if russia did it russia does not do this for some reason, fascism, too , and mine will stop, we will stop it

russian fascists. we are russians. we are not afraid of anyone and it is never clear what you will do. you will see it with your own eyes in the morning president levits will call the behavior of those gathered at the monument disrespectful to the latvian state and latvians seven will cancel the article of the russian latvian treaty on the preservation of memorials. and the riga city council will erect a monument to the liberators to dismantle the city council the president will praise and call to support the procession of the patriots of latvia patriots are our time, let's set off on the basis of the declaration on the restoration of latvia's independence of the ninetieth year, the concept of fifty years of occupation. this may sound like common sense nonsense, but occupation regimes 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, 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 with the slogan grusify latvia more and 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 near the monument to the liberators. and also accept a law that will allow the expulsion from latvia of those who are not loyal 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, let's wave our hand to him and say, never see you again, join the warship and

take a swim stele crowned with five-pointed stars. on the left is the motherland, on the right is a group of soldiers of the victors of 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 has become that place. where did they come on may 9 to feel not humiliation, but unity and pride. there will be no monuments, and here in riga in latvia at the end of february. all relations were interrupted appeared, firstly, a man with a hammer, who broke people who desecrate our memo. these are the nazis. we

continue the tradition of celebrating the liberation of the city of riga on may 9th. today we solve a lot of issues every day, which the government gives us a subscription, but this does not mean that we should forget our hero. i am non-nelkins, a huge number of latvians do not know at all who i am, i have not merged.

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