RIGA - The fuss around the [WWII] Latvian Legion must be seen as a purposeful attempt to humiliate Latvia and smear its image, reports LETA. It has nothing to do with any objective evaluation or understanding of history, emphasizes the Presidential Press Service, addressing those who compare President Andris Berzins’ views about the Latvian Legion to an attitude toward war criminals.Berzins has based his views about the Legionnaires on historical facts, which prove that they were established at the command of the occupying Nazi regime in 1943. The Legion was never voluntary, a...
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