Jānis Vagris
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Jānis Vagris was a Latvian politician. He served as the sixth Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1985 to 1988, and as Secretary of the Centra
Jānis Vagris
Popular Front of Latvia
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The Popular Front of Latvia was a political organisation in Latvia in the late 1980s and early 1990s which led Latvia to its independence from the Soviet Union. It was similar to the Popular Front of
Jānis Vagris
…the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia. He made a speech at the Mežaparks Great Bandstand, three days before the Popular Front of Latvia's first congress. In 1989, Vagris was elected to the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. On 7 April 1990, Vagris was succeeded by Alfrēds…
Museum of the Popular Front in Riga