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Latvian Resistance to Soviet Occupation 1944-1949

The reestablishment of Soviet control in the mid-1940s was not welcomed. Many Latvians joined the guerrilla movement, which fought the occupying power for close to a decade. To break this resistance and also to force peasants into collective farms, new deportations to Siberia, involving more than 40,000 people (10,590 of them children under sixteen years of age), were completed on March 25, 1949. This date was to become a focal point of demonstrations in 1988.
References: 

Latvia - A Country Study.
http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/lima/latvia1944.htm Revised: October 13, 2003

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