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The film studio "Mistrus Media" in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Latvia, remebering the events of January 1991 in Latvia and the Baltics, has created a podcast "30 years after the January 1991 barricades. Reconstruction of history”.

In Latvian with English subtitles.

In January 1991 people flowed into the capitals of the Baltic states and erected makeshift barricades around strategic locations like the parliament and the national radio to protect them against Soviet troops that wanted to crush the Baltic nations' independence drive. At one point, around 700,000 demonstrators had gathered on the streets of Rīga in a remarkable show of solidarity characteristic of the times of change.

Seven people lost their lives during the barricades in Latvia, most of them on January the 20th – the darkest day of the month-long struggle. As is now traditional, barricade fires and candles are lit commemorating the time and the people who died during the events. Flowers are also laid at the Freedom Monument, at Barricades square, the Meža cemetery, as well as by the building of the former Ministry of Interior - where the most brutal attacks of the Soviet special forces were carried out.