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In anticipation of the 82nd anniversary of the liberation of Riga from fascist occupation, the Socialist Party of Latvia invites everyone to a community cleanup event at the Cemetery for Red Army soldiers and victims of fascism in Ziepniekkalns (Riga), Reinermuižas Str. 14. Gardening equipment will be provided by the organizers. Meeting time: October 10 at 10:00 AM. We look forward to seeing you there!

Sagaidot Rīgas fašistiskās okupācijas nobeiguma 82. gadadienu, Latvijas Sociālistiskā partija aicina visus uz talku padomju karavīru un fašisma upuru kapos Ziepniekkalnā (Rīga), Graudu ielā. Inventārs tiks nodrošināts no organizatoru puses. Pulcējamies 10. oktobrī plkst. 10:00. Gaidām visus!

В преддверии 82-й годовщины окончания фашистской оккупации Риги, Социалистическая партия Латвии приглашает всех на субботник на кладбище советских воинов и жертв фашизма в Зиепниеккалнсе (Рига), на улице Грауду. Инвентарь для уборки будет предоставлен организаторами. Сбор 10 октября в 10:00. Ждём всех!

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A Festa do Avante! é um evento político-cultural, organizado pelo Partido Comunista Português. É o maior e o primeiro evento do género realizado em Portugal. A primeira edição realizou-se em 1976, na FIL, em Lisboa. Por norma, tem a duração de três dias que começa na primeira sexta-feira de Setembro

Todos os anos, os visitantes podem assistir a peças de teatro, ranchos folclóricos, grupos corais, dança e shows de vários géneros musicais. Realizam-se diversos debates políticos com a participação de dirigentes do PCP, exposições políticas, de artes plásticas, feira do livro, do disco, do artesanato entre vários outros programas desportivos e culturais, incluindo jogos tradicionais, balé, cinema, exposição de Ciência, espaço infantil, etc.

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A pontoon bridge, built by the Russian Empire in 1896, previously stood on this site. The design for the new permanent bridge was developed by engineer G. D. Popov and architect K. I. Yakovlev at the Moscow Institute "Proektstalkonstruktsiya" (Проектстальконструкция"). Construction commenced in 1955. The bridge is made of steel and reinforced concrete, which was then partially faced with granite. The capitalists, who seized power in the Baltics in the 1990s, renamed the October Bridge (Oktobra tilts) to "stone bridge."

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/lithuanian-lawmakers-approve-new-government-led-by-sinkevicius

“Hundreds of young Jewish men incarcerated in the Vilna ghetto had established the United Partisans Organization (FPO). During the liquidation of the ghetto, members of the FPO escaped to the forests, fought against the Germans, and joined the Red Army in liberating Vilna.

When Lithunia (including Vilna) was annexed to the Soviet Union in July 1940, the Zionist youth movements in Vilna were forced to go underground.

When the Germans occupied Vilna in June 1941, these movements worked to save their comrades during the Aktions.

At the end of 1941, there were still many Jews in the ghettos of Belarus and the Generalgouvernement, but most of the Jews in Vilna had already been murdered.

On 31 December 1941, some 150 members of pioneer youth movements in the Vilna ghetto assembled and heard Abba Kovner's stirring speech,

>"We shall not go like sheep to the slaughter."

The Jewish youth were called upon to prepare for an armed struggle against the Germans. Several weeks later, the United Partisans Organization (FPO) was established in order to offer armed resistance on liquidation of the ghetto, and to disseminate the idea of resistance amongst other ghettos.

They sent couriers to the Grodno, Bialystok and Warsaw ghettos with news of the extermination of the Jews of Vilna and Lithuania as a whole. The FPO had approximately 300 members, most of them armed. They would leave the ghetto to booby-trap trains and sabotage German equipment and ammunition.

In the spring of 1943, small ghettos and labor camps in the vicinity of Vilna were liquidated. The FPO stepped up the smuggling of arms into the ghetto, and made contact with partisans in the forests west of Belarus.

In July, an FPO partisan base was set up in the Naroch Forest, some 80 km east of Vilna. On 1 September 1943, during the roundup for deportation to Estonia, the FPO called on the Jews to ignore the deportation order, and even used arms against the Germans in the ghetto.

The Jews of the ghetto did not join the uprising, and as a result, the FPO halted its battle within the ghetto and started to smuggle its members out to the Naroch and Rudniki forests.

On 23 September, the day the ghetto was liquidated, the last group of 100 FPO members left the ghetto via the sewers led by Abba Kovner.

Some 700 young Jews from the ghetto joined the partisans in the forests, where they fought until the arrival of the Red Army, and participated in the liberation of Vilna on 13 July 1944.

After liberation, some 6,000 Jews gathered in Vilna, including partisans, Jews who had assumed the identity of Christians, Jews coming out of hiding, and the first survivors from the camps in Estonia.

Later on, Jews also returned to Vilna from the Soviet Union. Yad Vashem Photo Archives 1644” July 1944, Jewish Partisans Entering the Liberated Vilna, Lithuania

1: Soviet soldiers advance through Didžioji Street during the liberation of Vilnius in July 1944. In the foreground stands a captured German Volkswagen Typ 82 Kübelwagen alongside a German 8.8 cm FlaK anti-aircraft gun during Operation Bagration.

The original photograph captures several key historical details:

The Location: The streetscape shows Didžioji Street (with the Vilnius Town Hall in the background right) in Lithuania, shortly after Soviet forces pushed out the occupying German garrison.

The car is a German Volkswagen Typ 82 Kübelwagen, a light military vehicle widely used by the Wehrmacht. Red Army soldiers are seen using it as a captured war trophy.

The artillery piece on the left is a German 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37, universally known as the "88", which was originally an anti-aircraft gun but highly feared for its anti-tank capabilities.

This image is a prominent documentary record of the Vilnius Offensive (part of Operation Bagration), which ended in a major Soviet victory on July 13, 1944.

2: July 1944, Jewish Partisans Entering the Liberated City of Vilna, Lithuania

3: Soviet Ford GPAs and a T-34 tank on a street in Vilnius after the battle

Two Opposite Things Can Be True Simultaneously. For the people of Vilnius, it wasn't a true liberation but a tragic exchange of one totalitarian occupier for another. At the exact same time, for the city's few remaining Holocaust survivors, the arrival of the Red Army was a literal liberation from immediate death. History is often difficult; both of these devastating realities are true at once. ‘Either one or the other’ isn’t always possible. -W