Latvia being my second home country, I found one photo [0] from the article particularly interesting. It depicts a communist rally on (at the time) Brīvibas bul

Latvia being my second home country, I found one photo [0] from the article particularly interesting. It depicts a communist rally on (at the time) Brīvibas bulvaris, one of the main boulevards of Riga. The picture can be dated between July 5th 1940, the announcement of Soviet rigged elections, and the elections themselves on July 14 and 15, 1940 [1]. The slogans are only half readable, but say something like: * "Long live our agricultural labourers, farmers and worker intelligentsia!" * "On July 14-15, at the election, vote for ?our? Latvian labourer bloc" Very notable in the photo are at least four Latvian flags on the buildings. For those interested, there's a fairly good wikipedia article [2] about the first Soviet occupation of Latvia. [0] https://en.historylapse.org/l/be4WoPyQxGOv6enG5lVYznV305LlAmDN.jpg https://en.historylapse.org/l/be4WoPyQxGOv6enG5lVYznV305LlAm... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Latvian_parliamentary_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Latvian_parliamentary_ele... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Latvia_in_1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Latvia_in...