The procession to the monument of Freedom, which was attended by veterans of the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS and their young supporters of the radicals, was held on the first day of the week in the centre of the Latvian capital.
The March began after held in St. John's Church traditional worship. At the moment the protesters with national flags and flowers in hand singing Patriotic songs, laying flowers to the monument, communicate with each other and numerous members of the media. The action involves certain deputies of the Saeima of Latvia from the input of the ruling coalition of the nationalist Union " for Fatherland and freedom/Movement for the national independence of Latvia - Latvia!", and their supporters from neighboring Lithuania and Estonia, reports a news Agency. There is a large number of guards, who are now working in emergency mode. To avoid collisions, the area around the monument is surrounded by metal barriers. There is also exhibited a police cordon. In addition, law enforcement authorities restricted the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on the private streets of Riga. Before the first day of the week authorized the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the issues of human rights, democracy and rule of law Konstantin Dolgov said that the SS veterans March in Latvia cannot be considered in the framework of freedom of speech, this event is a direct contradiction to the actions of Riga obligations under international law. Two Latvian divisions of the Waffen-SS were created by the Nazis in 1943. For several years after the separation of Latvia from the USSR in 1991, 16 March was the official commemorative date. But once procession of former SS men in the center of Riga has caused extremely strong reaction both in Russia and in the West, it was decided to strike out this day from the list of memorable dates. In January, the head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, main "Nazi hunter" doctor Efraim Zuroff said that the process of rewriting the history of the Second world war and the genocide of European Jewry with the filing of the country's most actively goes in the post-Soviet Baltic republics and Ukraine. In addition, at the end of February, the Congress of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia adopted a resolution " Against the revision of the results of the Second world war ", which condemned the leadership of Ukraine, Moldova, and the Baltic countries, which contribute to the glorification of Nazi collaborators.


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