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New virtual tour of former KGB headquarters in Riga available
BC, Riga, 26.01.2015.
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Print versionFrom January 23, 2015, a new virtual tour of the notorious former KGB headquarters in Riga, known by locals as the ''house on the corner'', is available, LETA was informed by Latvian Institute spokesman Krisjanis Ozols.
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The virtual tour (in English) is available on the Latvian Institute's official web-page – http://latvia.eu/library/kgb-building.
As reported, the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia has set-up an exhibition in the building as part of the European Capital of Culture Year in Riga, which tells about the activities and atrocities committed by the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) in Latvia.
After the occupation of Latvia on June 17, 1940, the building became the headquarters of the State Security Committee of the Latvian SSR, commonly known as the "čeka". It did not take long for part of the basement and the ground floor to be reconstructed as prison cells and a place of torture and execution.
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