Against the Latvian People totalitarian Communist Genocide Commemoration Day of Victims / Celebration traditions

Against the Latvian People totalitarian Communist Genocide Victims dienaIk year the first Sunday in December is celebrated Latvian Against the Latvian People totalitarian Communist Genocide Victims Memorial Day , which honors during the Stalinist repression deaths in 1936. per year . Stalin's . Repressed minorities were among the intellectuals and the Communist Party and the Red Army officers . Repression were eliminated Latvian schools, cultural institutions and publishers - have been persecuted in every Latvian who had ever shown the activity , while the other - especially the younger generation hit by a wave of Russification . As a result of about 200 000 Latvians living in the Soviet Union, 70 000 were destroyed . As noted, every year the first Sunday of December Latvian , obtain for flags with mourning ribbon notes to commemorate the 1937 . in the repression against the Latvians in Russia , as well as other minorities . .