Memorial Day for Victims of the Communist Genocide in Latvia
Memorial Day for Victims of the Communist Genocide in Latvia is held on March 25. This event in the third decade of the month March is annual.
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On this day in 1949 tens of thousands of people were deported from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to Siberia. Only from Latvia were deported 43 thousand people, or more than 2% of the pre-war population of Latvia. They were brought to Siberia: to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Irkutsk, Omsk, Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions. Often the exiles were simply abandoned in the middle of the taiga, causing many to die.
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