A demonstration by Waffen-SS veterans, which...
of our guys were taken to a police station for identification checks although they had passports which they provided to the police," Goncharov said.Some 50 antifascists wearing prison costumes and carrying protest posters participated in the rally.
Latvia annually holds demonstrations by former legionnaires of the Latvian Waffen-SS legion on March 16. The Baltic state"s president said two years ago that he did not consider the legionnaires, many of whom participated in mass killings of Jews, to be Nazis.
The Russian Federation Council chairman criticized the European Union for neglecting the demonstration, adding today"s Nazi activists" power was not in their large numbers, but in the "indifference of society" to their activities.
"The fighter for European values - Brussels - is silent. I wonder whether Western capitals would be as indifferent to the march in Riga if the Waffen-SS were not only involved in punitive operations along the Eastern
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