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This year\u2019s Memorial Peloton is being held in four countries across Central and Eastern Europe. The first event took place in Riga on August 21, 2025. The date is symbolic\u2014exactly 34 years earlier, in 1991, Latvians declared the restoration of their independence after more than four decades of Soviet occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the third time, the Sybir Memorial Museum and the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia jointly organized a historical walk through Riga\u2019s Old Town. Nearly 50 participants first listened to short lectures by two historians, Gints Apals, PhD and Edv\u012bns Evarts, PhD, who presented Latvia\u2019s fate in the context of European history in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the post-war period under Soviet occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afterward, the participants set out on a 17-point route, beginning at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia on the Latvian Riflemen\u2019s Square. The route led through sites connected to Soviet and German occupation. One of them was Riga\u2019s railway station, where on June 17, 1940, the Soviets organized worker riots to demonstrate the alleged incompetence of the Latvian police and to justify the presence of the Red Army to quell the unrest. Other stops included the National Theatre building, where on July 21, 1940, the so-called People\u2019s Seimas met, with pro-Soviet deputies calling for Latvia\u2019s incorporation into the Soviet Union. The walk concluded at the building of Riga\u2019s Great Guild. Participants received commemorative kits and spoke cards for this year\u2019s Memorial Peloton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea of the International Memorial Peloton, dedicated to the victims of Soviet aggression, was created to honor all inhabitants of territories seized by the Soviet Union who suffered deeply under repression. The Sybir Memorial Museum organized the first Memorial Peloton in Bia\u0142ystok in 2017. Since then, partners from across Central and Eastern Europe have joined the initiative, giving it an international dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next Memorial Peloton will take place today in Vilnius, Lithuania, followed by Bia\u0142ystok on Sunday, August 24, and finally Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova, on August 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Museum of the Occupation of Latvia<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This year, the Peloton set off from Riga, with subsequent events to take place in Vilnius, Bia\u0142ystok, and Chi\u0219in\u0103u.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nInternational Memorial Peloton Began in Latvia - Muzeum Pami\u0119ci Sybiru<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sybir.bialystok.pl\/en\/international-memorial-peloton-began-in-latvia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Memorial Peloton Began in Latvia - Muzeum Pami\u0119ci Sybiru\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"International Memorial Peloton is one of the most important initiatives of the Sybir Memorial Museum. 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