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Russia slams Strasbourg court for seeking to revise WWII results (Update)

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

“Russia on Monday accused the European Court of Human Rights of going along with people who seek to rehabilitate Nazis by upholding Latvia’s appeal in the case of a Soviet World War II veteran.
Vasily Kononov, 87, who led a group of resistance fighters against Nazi Germany in the Baltic state during World War II, was jailed by Latvia in 1998 after he was convicted of ordering the killing of nine villagers in 1944. He admitted to the killings, but said the dead were Nazi collaborators who were caught in crossfire.
Earlier on Monday, the upper chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld the appeal by Latvia against the court’s 2008 ruling that the conviction of Kononov was illegal.”

source – RIA Novosti

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March to honor German combat units during World War II in Latvia

Monday, March 17th, 2008

March 16 had been an official Waffen SS national remembrance day in Latvia till 2000

RIGA, Latvia: Thousands of people marched through this capital Sunday under heavy police protection to honor countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II.

Soviet forces occupied the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in June 1940, but were driven out by the Germans a year later. The Red Army retook the Baltics in 1944 and incorporated them into the Soviet Union. About 250,000 Latvians ended up fighting alongside either the Germans or Soviet forces in World War II. About 150,000 Latvians died in the fighting.

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