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11 Facts About Latvian SSR

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Latvian SSR was nominally established on 21 July 1940 by a Stalinist puppet government in the territory of the previously independent Republic of Latvia, after it had been invaded and occupied on 17 June 1940 by the Soviet Red Army.

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The first freely elected parliament of the Latvian SSR passed a declaration "On the Renewal of the Independence of the Republic of Latvia" on 4 May 1990, restoring the official name of the State of Latvia as the Republic of Latvia.

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3.

On 24 September 1939, the ULatvian SSR entered the airspace of Estonia, flying numerous intelligence-gathering operations.

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4.

On 16 June 1940, after the ULatvian SSR had already invaded Lithuania, it issued an ultimatum to Latvia which was followed by the Soviet occupation of Latvia on June 17.

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The Latvian SSR army did not fire a shot and was quickly decimated by purges and included in the Red Army.

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6.

Some Latvian SSR diplomats stayed in the West and the Latvian SSR Diplomatic Service continued to advocate the cause of Latvia's freedom for the next 50 years.

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Some 600 Latvian SSR officers were arrested in the Litene army camp, many of them executed on the spot.

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8.

In 1943 and 1944 two divisions of Latvian SSR Legion were created through a forced mobilization and made a part of Waffen SS in order to help Germany against the Red Army.

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In spite of this, seventy-three percent of all Latvian SSR residents confirmed their strong support for independence on March 3,1991, in a non-binding advisory referendum.

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Up to the reassessment of Soviet history in the ULatvian SSR that began during Perestroika, before the ULatvian SSR had condemned the 1939 secret protocol between Nazi Germany and itself that had led to the invasion and occupation of the three Baltic countries, the events in 1939 were as follows: The Government of the Soviet Union suggested that the Governments of the Baltic countries conclude mutual assistance treaties between the countries.

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Declarations of Estonia's, Latvia's and Lithuania's wishes to join the ULatvian SSR were adopted and the Supreme Soviet of the ULatvian SSR petitioned accordingly.

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