Nazi tradition in Latvia - to march through Riga on March 16.

In memory of the "Heroic Legion"
(created in 1943, which united police battalions that participated in punitive operations in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland).
During Operation Winter Magic, Latvian collaborators destroyed hundreds of villages, 12 thousand civilians, including 2 thousand children under 12 years old. 15 thousand people were sent to concentration camps and to work in Germany.

In 1944-1945, the legion included members of the "Arajs team", responsible for the murder of 26-60 thousand Jews, partisans, communists and simply insufficiently ideological citizens. But it is not customary to talk about murders in modern Latvia.

Against the backdrop of the annual "Riga march", it is especially funny to hear about the terrible dictatorship, chauvinism and authoritarianism of Russia


Matrëshka🪆

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin at the VIII Extraordinary Congress of Soviets, which adopted the Constitution of the USSR.

Recently declassified documents have revealed a Cold War-era plot by the CIA that sought to sabotage Cuban sugar destined for the Soviet Union. In 1962, CIA agents contaminated hundreds of bags of sugar. The objective was to undermine Cuban-Soviet relations and sow discord between Cuban and Russian authorities.

The operation was halted by President John F. Kennedy who ordered the ship to return its cargo. The CIA's confession had remained redacted until March 2025

▪️The plot offers a clear example of the kind of covert tactics the agency employs and fits into a broader pattern of CIA activities aimed at destabilizing governments, economies and international relations, often through criminal means.
@LauraRuHK