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On commemoration day, Latvia still struggles with past

Jun 17, 1999
Sandra L. Medearis

RIGA – Flags draped with black ribbons fluttered in Riga's Dome Square June 14 in commemoration of when Soviets rounded up 15,000 Latvians and sent them to Siberia in 1941. Pauls Klavins was a boy back then."It was a shock. I was just keeping my cows and sheep on my parents' farm as it happened on the 14th June, very early, very early, on a sunny day. On that one day, 15,000 people were collected and taken to railway trucks, prepared with bars, to be transported to Siberia," he said. "I will al ...

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