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Veterans of the Latvian Legion, a force that was part of the Nazi German Waffen SS, walk with relatives to the Monument of Freedom as part of an annual commemoration on March 16, 2010 in Riga. Moscow and some in Latvia's ethnic-Russian community see the parade as glorifying Nazism because the Legion was commanded by war-time Germany's elite Waffen SS. Veterans insist they were not Nazis themselves but simply took sides to defend their Baltic nation of 2.2 million. The Soviet Union had seized Latvia in 1940 under a pact with the Nazis, and deported 15,000 people to Siberia. AFP PHOTO / ILMARS ZNOTINS
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Riga, LATVIA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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ILMARS ZNOTINS |
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16 Martie 2010 |
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4200 x 2795 (1.23 MB) |
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