Dear fellow countrymen in far-away Australia,

On 14 June, eighty years passed since the time of one of the most tragic, bleak and depressing days in the history of the Latvian people, when tens of thousands of people from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were brutally and forcibly sent away to Siberia and other remote and barren parts of northern Russia. This is the day when the Soviet occupation authorities carried out a ruthless, thoroughly planned, prepared and premeditated crime against our people – mass deportations of civilians.

In Latvia, the 14th of June began as a quite ordinary summer morning with no ill forebodings.... Read more>>