The leadership of the defense industry will honor the memory of the victims of the Second World War

On Wednesday, May 8, the leadership of the defense industry will honor the victims of the Second World War by participating in memorial events at the Riga Brothers’ Cemetery and the Lestenes Brothers’ Cemetery, Tukuma district.

At 10:30 a.m., marking the day of commemoration of the defeat of Nazism and the victims of the Second World War, Minister of Defense Andris Sprūds and Commander of the National Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Leonids Kalniņš, as well as Commander of the 1st Riga Brigade of the National Guard, Colonel Normunds Baranovs, will participate in the ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the Riga Brothers’ Cemetery.

Musical accompaniment during the memorial event will be provided by the National Armed Forces Headquarters Orchestra.

On the other hand, at 14.00, in honor of the victims of the Second World War, the Minister of Defense A. Spruds and the Commander of the National Armed Forces, Lieutenant General L. Kalniņš, will visit the graves of the Lestene brothers, where a memorial event dedicated to the fighters of the Second World War will take place.

The commemorative event is organized by the Latvian Soldiers’ Memorial Society “Lestene”, and during it the musical accompaniment will be provided by the Naval Orchestra of the National Armed Forces.

During the Second World War, the Christmas battles took place in the vicinity of Lestenes and Džukste, which ended at the beginning of January 1945. In these battles, Latvian units fighting on opposite sides fought against each other for the first time: the Latvian 19th Grenadier Division and the 106th Grenadier Regiment, which were part of the German Armed Forces, and the 130th Latvian Rifle Corps with two divisions, which were part of the Red Army of the Soviet Union.

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