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Hello dear friends
always
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at least always
be healthy and successful in all your
good endeavors May you all
succeed
today our little Journey
begins together extremely important and
personally for me
and for everyone who lives in Latvia
and for the majority of normal people
who retain the memory of what
humanity experienced in the twentieth century and
what should never be repeated anywhere,
this memory is
one of the elements of a
new bright future
that gives Great hope
that, firstly, everything will work out for us, and
secondly, that we will never let's forget
this is not necessary for the dead,
this is necessary for the living,
we are on the territory of the complex,
it was built a long time ago, today I will not
give any historical dates
or any
clarifying elements in my story, we are
not an excursion, we have events And I would
like to be part of this you
participated with your heart and soul and
because there is a person in each of you
why this place is especially important now Well,
first of all, absolutely most of you
know that quite recently in Riga a
memorial
dedicated to the
memory of the liberation of Latvia and Riga from the
Nazi invaders was demolished
so
this memorial in the center which does not
exist
was built by those who took part
in the plan and in the implementation of this
plan here
in this place in the place
we still remember everything that was here in the
church
and this is why
this place is especially important there are
certain signals there is a certain
feeling that those
who planned and carried out with the hands of their
charges the
destruction of the
center of memory of the Great Victory of the
Soviet people have not calmed down at all and their tentacles are already reaching out
and there
is such information here, so I think
that this is the very place
that for many will be the last
test
and test of strength for throughout
Latvia,
on this concrete
object, it is written that behind these gates
the Earth is groaning, so that this Earth
never groans again, we must remember
everything that was here, they don’t
bring flowers here,
they come here in order to remember, so
as not to forget, there is still here on the
territory of this
memorial complex a special
place in which Soviet times
this place is
immortalized with a
special slab there once upon a time when this
concentration camp was working,
if I may say so,
there was a children's barracks there,
those same Horrors of abomination took place and
everything connected with the concept of
inhumanity
comes to this place with something tasty
even today
I’m visiting this complex
we will perform and this act of
Our memory will
now
go through
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what you hear
is a
symbolic reflection of the beating of the
human heart of a
living heart
A reminder of how many human
hearts
stopped here while this
Death Factory existed
and in our
Soviet times when we schoolchildren
came here more than once, the
guides always emphasized that as long
as
this heart sounds,
nothing terrible and catastrophic
will happen on this earth. I
really want
these sounds to
not stop here
as long as the human race is alive, as a
reminder, as a warning
and as a farewell to a new bright existence
without horrors and nightmares that
inhuman Nazism carries within itself No matter
what clothes he was born in, no matter how
he disguised himself
in any way, very interesting to
all of this there is
one name, these are
not people who should not have a place on earth
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behind me there are
monumental figures
and each of these the figures mean something
important,
something that is tightly connected with this place
with the fact that a lot happened here,
a lot is known about these terrible places all over the world, and there are books about this place
here Memoirs of former prisoners of
juvenile concentration camps
and
each figure carries
its own image, its own symbol its meaning
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humiliated we know
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further a
mother protecting her children
a complex of three figures Roth Front this
internal resistance that was in
this camp is a
separate story,
even being in such absolutely
human conditions people found the
strength and ability to resist
in the end
Even when it was unsuccessful, they
were always
symbolized by the figure of an unbroken
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on this concrete
object there is an inscription in Latvian
here
people were tried for being
innocent
here people were tried for
being people who
loved their homeland
God forbid this never happened again
and Ours the task,
friends, is to do everything to prevent this from happening
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here from 41 to 44, on the territory of the
Salaspils
concentration camp, there was a
children's barracks,
here they kept children
who were driven from all over Europe,
children who saw here what is also
undesirable for adults, the
main purpose of the stay of juvenile
prisoners here was supply of blood
to save
German military personnel on the fronts of the
Second World War,
fortunately some of these children survived
and were able to tell later how it
all happened here.
I remember the
second excursion here when we were
schoolchildren, when
Ksenia Stepanovna Salnikova brought us back then, our first
class teacher
and
a kind the excursion here
was just conducted by a woman, a
former prisoner, just from this very
Barack.
Well, what can we take
from those foolish ones
here and at that time, after all, just as now, rose hips
bloom and bear fruit wildly?
Well, we were smart enough to ask permission
from this woman to
take the berries
and try them the taste
of which she very calmly and with a smile
said
so for longer Remember
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Today in our yard on September 25th
in the morning of our soukrasty it was somehow
gloomy the sky the clouds were cold We are
beds And now the
weather has turned up the sun is warming up
but the end of September is generally cool,
you can only imagine the conditions in which the
prisoners lived here,
how uncomfortable it was,
to put it mildly,
but even more terrible. The conditions were experienced by the
first,
if I may say so, settlers of these
places when the first
Soviet prisoners of war were brought here
and thrown out in an open field
just at the end September at the beginning of
October it was
and there was nowhere to hide
and the Soviet soldiers made
holes with their hands to escape from the bitter cold and
dankness
and
stripped the bark from the trees that
grew in small numbers there.
I’m trying
to survive. Although they probably didn’t understand
for long
and when they read to us in those School years
they talked about it
Yes, it was perceived to us,
it was taught at the proper level, I would
say
our second class teacher
Valentina Victor at Shipovo, after
visiting this place again in September, she
gave us
something like a
tough lesson
on this topic, she was a great master at
organizing all kinds of
tourist hikes and she and I didn’t
get bored in this sense, but here She
agreed with all the parents
and
organized for us a one-day
express hike with a minimum
amount of amenities.
In general, we drank from our
Latin weather to the fullest; it was
cold and wet
and there wasn’t much food a lot was said,
a lot was said, not to take
a fire. How did we make a fire that night and didn’t
manage to
sleep in tents huddled together and
shivering in the cold
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and then in the morning she
gathered us around her and said this is
what you experienced tonight,
this is a millionth part of no what
they were experiencing then, remember,
I remember
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on the territory of the memorial complex
immediately as soon as it was all
planned, it was planned and the organization of the
museum
inside this structure,
since that time the Soviet form of the
exhibition has
changed a lot, the emphasis has shifted,
inscriptions have appeared,
smoothing out the
essence of what happened here, well,
what
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someday the whole truth about everything that
happened here in other places, it
will be in demand
and will rise to its full height as it was, but
for now let’s just go and have a look
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Well, friends,
our little journey is over
on a very important day
in a very important place,
I think that we will come here more than once, but for now that’s all
Until we meet again.
Be healthy and successful in all your
main deeds, your heart filled with light
and the warmth of your souls. Let everything
work out. Until we meet again
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choked by a child's cry
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deep silence
above you
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above the granite
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He will see them, he has survived,
he has remained faithful to them here
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bring a flower
here they don’t hear
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only the wind has been sweeping away the terrible trail for many years
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Whoever saw it, don’t forget
there are no more terrible graves in the world
here when
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on the granite slab
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Put your candy
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he was like you as a child like you
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