Memorial place for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans in Prode parish
Memorial site
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The white cross with a stele for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans in Prode parish. Installed at the place where the Chekists buried the corpses of fallen national partisans in gravel pits. The memorial site is dedicated to several hundred Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans who resisted the Soviet occupation.
On the stele there is an inscription in Latvian and Lithuanian languages: "Sales to Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans. In the fight against the communist occupation regime 1944-1953. they were united and together they sacrificed themselves for freedom".
The memorial was dedicated on September 5, 2007. It was improved and supplemented with a commemorative plaque on April 24, 2013, in the presence of the Commander of the Latvian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Raimonds Graubes, and the Commander of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Arvīdas Pocius, and other representatives of the armed forces of both countries. The memorial has been arranged by the Latvian National Partisans Association together with the Lithuanian Freedom Fighters Association, in cooperation with Subate and Obelė municipalities.
Used sources and references:
https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/subate-atklaj-pieminas-plaksni-kritusajiem-partizaniem.a55483/
