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A monument to the defenders of Bauska in 1944 was unveiled in the small town of Bauska in southern Latvia on 14 September 2012. The monument is an obelisk about two metres high. The inscription reads; "To the defenders of Bauska against the second Soviet occupation on July 28 – September 14, 1944", followed by "Latvia should be a Latvian state", a quotation from a speech made by Karlis Ulmanis, Latvia's last pre-war president. The monument has been built with private donations on land given by the municipal council. It was unveiled in the centre of Bauska in the presence of local officials and a lawmaker.〔 ==Background== (詳細はSoviet occupation of Latvia from 1940 to 1941 was replaced by the Nazi occupation, 1941 to 1944. In 1944 the Red Army launched the Baltic Offensive towards the Gulf of Riga. A volunteer corps of town inhabitants was formed to protect the town against the Red Army. The volunteer forces, numbering about 300, and outnumbered tens to one, managed to hold back the offensive for six weeks, from 28 July to 14 September 1944.〔 The Soviet bombardment of 11 – 14 September 1944 destroyed 100 buildings in the town and damaged more than 300 – destroying more than one third of Bauska. Most of the defenders died in the desperate fighting. The initiator of the monument, Egils Helmanis, the grandson of one of the volunteer defenders of Bauska, stated: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bauska’s Defenders' Monument」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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