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Anti-Hitler Coalition Fighters

Residents of Latvia – Anti-Hitler Coalition Fighters

On 2 August 1941 the USSR State Committee of Defence issued a decree on the creation of a Latvian Infantry Division. At the time the division was formed up to 90% of the fighters were residents of Latvia, 20% of them being of local Russian minority origin. The division participated in the fateful battle for Moscow. On 5 October 1942 the division was re-named the 43rd Latvian Guard Infantry Division. On 11 June 1944 the division became part of the 130th Latvian Infantry Corps, which actively participated in the liberation of Latvia from the Nazi occupiers in 1944 and 1945.

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