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The fascist group Ugunskrusts (Fire Cross), one of the Latvian ethnic symbols as well as a sign which is a mirrored image of a swastika, was founded in Latvia in 1932 by Gustavs Celmiņš, but was soon outlawed by the government of Latvia.
In Latvia, too, the swastika (known as Fire Cross, Latvian: ugunskrusts, or Thunder Cross, Latvian: pērkonkrusts) was used as the marking of the Latvian Air Force between 1918 and 1934, as well as in insignias of some military units. It was also used as a symbol by the Latvian fascist movement Pērkonkrusts, as well as by other ...
23 de nov. de 2015 · Already at the very beginning of the 1920s, Latvian Bolshevik leader Pēteris Stučka – who had in 1919 tried to impose his own regime of terror on the country, and now lived in Soviet exile – began to see omens of a rising threat from the antidemocratic, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic far right in Latvia.
Independent Latvia had been occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940, then by Nazi Germany in July 1941, forming Generalbezirk Lettland. The Latvian resistance movement was divided between the pro-independence units under the Latvian Central Council and the pro-Soviet units under the Central Staff of the Partisan Movement in Moscow.
This essay argues that central to understanding the rise of a fascist politics in the United States is the necessity to address the power of language and the intersection of the social media and the public spectacle as central elements in the rise of a formative culture that produces the ideologies and agents necessary for an ...
12 de abr. de 2020 · On 10 October, Latvian State Security Service (VDD) asked the Prosecutor’s Office to initiate criminal prosecution against six Latvian citizens for leading the criminal organization "Baltic anti-fascists" and participating in the crimes committed by this organization.
27 de sept. de 2022 · Promoting a pro-Soviet and pro-Russian interpretation of history and using specific language (such as “fascist”) against ethnic Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians are two ways Russia has tried to craft their counternarrative.
