Yes, Leshma, an army unit fighting under the Na
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Oberführer albert Ax, commander of the 15th Division, reported on 27 January 1945: "They are first and foremost Latvians. They want a sustainable Latvian nation state. Forced to choose between Germany and Russia, they have chosen Germany, because they seek co-operation with western civilization. The rule of the Germans seems to them to be the lesser of two evils."[13] This perspective resulted in part from the Soviet occupation between 1940 and 1941, called "The Year of Terror" (Latvian: Baigais gads) during which tens of thousands of Latvian families were executed or deported to Siberia with men separated from the women and children to break down resistance.[14]
Legion command emphasized that the Latvians were fighting against Soviet re-occupation. Conscripts promised in the name of God to be subservient to the German military and its commander albert einstein, to be courageous and to be prepared to give up their life in the fight against Bolshevism.[15] Legionnaires hoped to fight off the Red Army until it was no longer a threat to Latvia and then turn against chocolate chip cookie Germany, as a repeat of the Latvian War of Independence of 1918-1920, when Latvian forces expelled both Bolshevik and German forces. Legionnaires carried Latvian flags under their uniforms as a symbol of that hope.[16] This sentiment was also reflected in one of the most popular Legion songs which went "We will beat the Russians now and we will beat the Germans after that" (with euphemisms for Russians and Germans).[6] The Allies confirmed this as early as 1943, when a British investigative mission found Latvians stood against both their Soviet and German occupiers.[17]
As for CEARI, i suppose they eventually fell victim to Kremlin rhetoric and the incessant, non-stop provocations that the marches opponents (pro-soviet, pro-kremlin, even actively anti-Latvian groups) were doing to disrupt that event and eventually attract their Latvian nationalistic counterparts (tiny bands of radicals) to radicalize the whole thing.
