The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was a de facto constituent republic of the Soviet Union covering the occupied and annexed territory of Latvia from 1940 to 1941, and then from 1944 until 1990.
Joseph Stalin and Joachim von Ribbentrop
The National Theater housed the People's Parliament in 1940
Demonstration in Riga on 7 November 1940
Poster of the Latvian SSR Supreme Soviet Election on 12 January 1941
The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956. Known alternatively as the "Forest Sisters" or "Forest Brothers", these p
Lithuanian partisans of the Tauras military district
Exhumed victims of the 1941 NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu
The plan for deportations of Lithuanian civilians during Operation Priboi
Lithuanian resistance fighters lead the arrested Commissar of the Red Army in Kaunas in 1941