Daugava monument to honor 20th century victims

Sep 21, 2005
By Aaron Eglitis

During the Soviet period, a hydroelectric dam threatened to destroy the castle at Koknese. Popular indignation with the dam led to one of the first successful environmental protests in the mid-1980s. Perhaps, then, it is fitting that picturesque Koknese will now be the home to a monument honoring those who died over the last century due to war and totalitarian regimes.The monument, still in its planning stages, will honor the estimated 600,000 people that died during the first and second World W ...

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