Latvian politicians encourage President not to sign the law equaling rights of Red Army officers and SS

The Latvian president Raimonds Vejonis should not sign the law that grants equal rights to the veterans of the Red Army and the SS as believed in the social democratic party Harmony. The members of the opposing party, representing interests of Russian-speaking citizens of the republic encourage the head of state to send the project back to the parliament, reports TASS.

According to Janis Urbanovcs heading the Harmony party, the status of the war’s participant depends on the kind and the time of citizenship acquisition. He stressed that those who won the war will not be entitled to this status, because the law will deprive most of the Red Army veterans of this right.

Note that Latvian Seim approved the draft law, which stipulates that members of the war in the Baltic Republic are the people who had Latvian citizenship as of June 17 1940. This is the day that Riga calls the beginning of invasion. The participants of the World War II are the citizens of Latvia, who fought against the Soviet power and also Hitler’s Germany and its allies from other countries. The status of the participant of the WW2 will not be granted to the members of NSDAP and the representatives of the Third Reich military structures and collaborationists, as well as to the members of KGB USSR and LSSR.

According to the draft law non-citizens are also not entitled to the right. So the politician believes that the law weakens the position of the non-citizens.

Russkiy Mir