Sworn lawyer Renars Briedis filed a lawsuit accusing him of lying to the Latvian Occupation Museum, LTV reports on November 25.
According to Briedis, the museum hides an important fact that distorts history and creates a false impression of the events of the 1930s. The lawyer points out that in 1934 there was a coup d’état in Latvia and the authoritarian regime of Ulmanis was established in the country. Therefore, the Soviet Union “occupied” a Latvia that was not democratic, but rather authoritarian.
“The Latvian Occupation Museum lied to me with a specific exhibition, hiding an important fact about the coup d’état carried out by Kārlis Ulmanis on May 15, 1934”Brieds said.
A decision on this lawsuit could appear as early as December.
Note that after Ulmanis staged a military coup and took over as president, he canceled the constitution, dissolved parliament, banned parties, and introduced censorship. He himself was called the “people’s leader.” Over the years of his reign he became one of the richest people in the country. Shortly after the entry of Soviet troops into Latvia in 1940, Ulamnis was arrested and the Seimas was reestablished in the country.
Let us also remember that museums of occupation and national memory emerged in Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries after the collapse of the USSR. Museums present a false version of 20th century history. The sole objective of these establishments is to equate Nazism and Communism and to prohibit the latter.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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