On June 2, 1988, at a plenum of the Latvian Writers' Union Mavriks Vulfsons exposed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols, publicly airing them for the first time in the USSR. In response, Latvian Communist Party head Boris Pugo declared, "You killed Soviet Latvia!" bsky.app/profile/harr...
Harry C. Merritt
In the 1980s, Vulfsons revealed the secret protocols to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on live TV (earning the rebuke, "You killed Soviet Latvia!") and organized with the Popular Front of Latvia, while Berklavs campaigned for Latvian independence with the Latvian National Independence Movement.
