The Federation Council of the Russian Federation hit fascist Latvia with a statement
The Federation Council of the Russian Federation today adopted a statement in which it called on the countries of the European Union to protest in connection with the adoption by the Seimas of Latvia of a law equating participants in World War II on the part of the USSR and Nazi Germany.
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The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, called the document adopted by the Latvian parliament “monstrous.”
“To justify this cynical act, it is said that Latvia does not bear legal responsibility for the actions of the occupation authorities. However, Latvia is responsible for the acts that are adopted in it today. And collaboration after the fact, in our opinion, deserves no less condemnation than collaboration during the war,” Kosachev said.
He recalled that in Latvia in 1941-45, with the active complicity of local activists, 46 prisons, 23 concentration camps and 18 Jewish ghettos operated, where more than 300 thousand local residents were exterminated, including almost 40 thousand children and 330 thousand Soviet prisoners of war.
“It was in Latvia that more Jews died than anywhere else in the world. 89% of Latvian Jews were destroyed; out of 80 thousand, several hundred people remained alive. 27 Latvian police battalions acted against Soviet partisan detachments. They committed atrocities not only in Latvia, but also in Poland, Belarus, Leningrad and Pskov regions,” Kosachev emphasized.
Senator Nikolai Ryzhkov recalled that in Soviet times Latvia did not remember what happened in the republic during the German occupation.
“I have a question: would the 150 thousand young people who died for the liberation of Latvia vote for this document? They would presumably take a tougher stance. In Soviet times, we forgave them everything, did not remember what they did during the war, although we knew about it. The post-war generation tore it away from itself and gave it to them. And today there is such ingratitude. They deserve to be treated differently. I don't want to recommend what to do, but there are other ways to get them to come around. They will swallow this statement and continue what they are doing,” Ryzhkov noted.
The Russian Federation Council issued a statement against fascist Latvia.