Published: 25.03.2017.
Today we commemorate one of the darkest pages in the history of Latvia. On 25 March 1949, the Communist occupation regime deported more than 42 thousand inhabitants of Latvia. It is incomprehensible nowadays how more people than currently living in the whole Ogre Region could have been physically captured and deported in one day on the territory of Latvia. Today we honour the victims of the deportations, and we remind others and ourselves, why we must never forget this tragedy.