Latvia should take a stronger stance against alleged Holocaust participants

A new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum aims to condemn those who carried out crimes against humanity in Latvia in 1941 and beyond.

Canadian Armed Forces members conduct a live range exercise as part of Operation Reassurance at the Camp Ādaži training area in Latvia, on Dec. 19, 2019. Members of the Canadian Armed Forces battle group are in Latvia to show solidarity with a NATO ally, and protect our ‘shared values,’ writes Scott Taylor, which aren't glorifying people who swore allegiance to Adolf Hitler.DND photograph by Cpl. Djalma Vuong-De Ramos

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

March 4, 2020

OTTAWA—There is a new exhibition set to open this week at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. It is entitled “The Latvian Tragedy 1941,” and the promotional material defines it as a depiction of a very dark chapter in that nation’s history. Stalin’s Soviet Union had occupied Latvia the yea...

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