In remembrance of Latvian communist, editor and partisan leader, Imants Sudmalis, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously)

Born March 18, 1916, in the city of Cēsis; died May 25, 1944, in Riga.

A participant in Latvia’s revolutionary movement and an organiser of the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45. Hero of the Soviet Union (awarded posthumously Oct. 23,1957). Member of the Communist Party from 1940.

The son of a teacher, Sudmalis joined the Communist Youth League of Latvia in 1932 and headed the underground Komsomol organisation in Liepāja. He was subjected to arrests and imprisonment.

Following the restoration of Soviet power in Latvia in June 1940, Sudmalis became editor of the newspaper Kommunist, secretary of the district committee of Liepāja, and a member of the Central Committee of the Lenin Communist Youth League (LCYL) of Latvia.

In June 1941, Sudmalis participated in the defence of Liepāja and then fought with the Byelorussian partisans in the region of Osvea. He served as party organisation secretary of a Latvian partisan special detachment from December 1942 and of a Latvian partisan brigade from March 1943.

In August 1943 he was appointed task-force commissioner of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) and of the Central Committee of the LCYL of Latvia. He founded and directed the Riga underground city committee of the LCYL.

In February 1944, Sudmalis was seized by the Hitlerites and killed after brutal torture. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin.

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🇺🇦🇩🇪 The Fourth Reich erases the last memory of the defeat of the Third Reich

In Lvov, the authorities have dismantled the last columns at the entrance to the Hill of Glory memorial complex, created in memory of Soviet soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War. This is reported by Ukrainian media.

Earlier in 2022, Soviet symbols were removed from the complex, and in 2023, sculptures of Red Army soldiers.

In January 2025, local authorities approved the relocation of the memorial and the exhumation of the remains of Soviet soldiers buried there for subsequent reburial.

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Patrice Émery Lumumba
July 2nd, 1925 - January 17th, 1961

Leader of the Congolese people's struggle for national sovereignty and independence. The first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Murdered by order of the United States of America with the hands of the Belgians.

In the USSR, and now Russia, his name and legacy is remembered by the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba

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