"This trip will be a response to a recent public rally held by the supporters of Russian schools in Strasbourg," the deputy said at a sixth session of Latvian volunteer Waffen SS legionaries and their supporters, which took place in Latvia on Saturday, July 24.
Such a revanchist "Drang nach Westen" (Rush to the West) looks quite feasible as former Latvian Defense Minister Girts Kristovskis who had recently become a deputy of the European parliament -a stronghold of the European democracy- greeted the participants of the session from Strasbourg.
Latvian newspaper "Latvijas Avize" says in today's issue "the participants' intentions were much more bellicose than earlier."
The article says "Latvian home political events, tense relations with Russia as well as strange attitude of Western Europe to Latvian fighters for freedom and Latvians' strive to be masters in their own house account for it."
Inspired by the support from both Latvian Sejm and deputies of the European Parliament chairman of the national fighters' (legionaries') organization Nikolay Romanovskis appealed to Latvians "to face off" Russia. He also promised all those present "he would do his best not to allow anybody from the government to call legionaries fascist or fascist henchmen."
"Latvijas Avize" says a convention of "national guerilla warriors" will take place on July 31 not far away from Riga. They are known as "forest brothers" - former fighters of armed units, which carried out subversion activities in Latvia after the WWII was over.
The newspaper assumes legionaries and "forest brothers" will hold joint rallies in the future.
