He also argued that the Baltic countries' assistance to Nazis during the second world war was a myth and another example of Soviet misinformation.
Artis Pabriks added however that 'the government of Latvia does not support these moves (SS veterans). "It is rather deplorable to see a modest procession of gray-haired veterans pictured by Russian propaganda as a revival of Nazism in Latvia," noted the minister.
In the meantime, Moscow regards marches by former SS members in Riga as an immoral and inadmissible act.
"Only perverted logic can be used to justify the situation when SS League officers are measuring out their pace in the center of the Latvian capital while police are cracking down on anti-fascists," the Russian foreign ministry comments on the "traditional" rally of SS veterans, nationalists and radicals this year.
And it was with the Latvian authorities' consent that this action took place. "It is all the more cynical that these moves are taken with consent from the government marking the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory over Nazism with persistent attempts to find support in European capitals for Riga's policy toward the revision of the results of the second world war. The Latvian leaders are also seeking to review the Nuremberg Tribunal judgments on the SS league as a criminal organization," says the Russian foreign ministry.
