Immediately after the installment of Nazi German authority, a process of eliminating the Jewish and Gypsy population began, with many killings taking place in Rumbula.
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The killings were committed by the Einsatzgruppe A, the Wehrmacht and Marines (in Liepāja), as well as by Latvian collaborators, including the 500-1,500 members of the infamous Arajs Commando (which alone killed around 26,000 Jews) and the 2,000 or more Latvian members of the SD.
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In short order, the incumbent governments were replaced with "People's Governments" that were merely being used to give legal sanction to the Soviet takeover.
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Aivars Janovits Lazdenieks (born February 26, 1954 in Skrunda) is a Latvian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
From 1962–1963, Aboimov was the executive secretary of the Komsomol branch of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic and assistant manager of the Department of Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in Latvia.