Up Against the Wall: The KGB and Latvia
By Vincent Hunt
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By Vincent Hunt
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A hardhitting history of the Soviet security police in totalitarian Latvia – with Latvians as both oppressors and oppressed.
Through the stories of people held as prisoners, never told before in English, Up Against the Wall details the methods of a brutal totalitarian regime and the bloody twists and turns of Latvia’s long and complicated relationship with the Soviet security police. This is not for the squeamish. At the KGB headquarters in Riga – the Corner House, or Stūra māja – suspects ...
Through the stories of people held as prisoners, never told before in English, Up Against the Wall details the methods of a brutal totalitarian regime and the bloody twists and turns of Latvia’s long and complicated relationship with the Soviet security police. This is not for the squeamish. At the KGB headquarters in Riga – the Corner House, or Stūra māja – suspects ...


