Abstract
While the end of the Second World War marks the victory of the Allies over Nazi Germany, it also signifies the establishment of Soviet power in Latvia. Since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991, ‘Latvian’ and ‘Russian’ political entrepreneurs in Latvia have mobilized the memories of the conflict and the regime established after the war with a view to forming groups.1 Their objective is to give meaning to individuals’ memories of that period by creating a coherent and unified representation of the past, having it recognized as being true and having it shared by the largest number of people. As a result, they produce sharply divided representations that set those who see the Second World War as a period rallying all anti-Fascist forces and leading to a ‘liberation’ against those for whom the conflict marks the loss of independence and opens onto a ‘double occupation’.
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