Experiencing Totalitarianism In the course of World War II, the Republic of Latvia was occupied and annexed by the USSR in June of 1940. A year of sovietization was followed by four years of another occupation (1944-1945)- this time by the army of Hitler"s Third Reich. After Germany"s defeat, the Soviet occupation returned, lasting for the next forty-five years. The book is a documentary history of the presence of these two t... Full description