06/09/1991 · Soviet Union/Latvia (1940-1991) Crisis Phase (August 5, 1940-May 6, 1945): The Soviet Union formally annexed Latvia on August 5, 1940. Some 35,000 Latvians were killed or deported during the Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941. Some 134,000 Latvians fled as refugees to western European countries, mostly to Germany and Sweden.

The Baltic countries Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were the last republics to join the USSR. The large territory of Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire during the partitions of the Polish...

01/12/2013 · Latvia then became a ‘Socialist Soviet Republic’ – put simply, an annex of Russia’s Communist Soviet Union. During this brief Soviet rule, some terrible atrocities were committed. During just one night of June 1941, over 15,000 Latvian citizens – described as ‘anti-Soviet elements’ – were arrested and deported to forced labour camps mostly in Siberia, where many …

People from the other Soviet republics were being moved to Latvia in the 1960s to build hydropower plants, various factories, and work at Soviet national security authorities. All of them had to be provided with someplace to live. That is when the development of new neighbourhoods began in many cities and towns of Latvia.

The leading positions in postwar Latvia's political, economic, and cultural life were filled by Russians or Russified Latvians, known as latovichi, who had spent much or all of their lives in the Soviet Union. Political power was concentrated in the Communist Party of Latvia (CPL), which numbered no more than 5,000 in 1945.

31/01/2022 · By then, 15 countries had become part of the USSR: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.