In the same Ventspils in the center is a stately monument to a mustache man who has both a hat and a belt buckle of a communist five – pointed star. The man carved in stone is the Red Army Commissioner Jānis Fabriciuss (1877–1929), who was born in Zlēku Parish, near Ventspils. A soldier who occasionally participated in the Latvian War of Independence on the Soviet side. The monument unveiled during the years of Soviet occupation was not dismantled after the restoration of Latvia’s independence, and it still raises discussions as to why there is a memorial site for a communist militant in the city center.
The monument to Jānis Fabricius was unveiled on February 21, 1954. “Streams of people continue to flow from all sides. The places, raised above their heads, flare and proudly flutter in the cold sea wind purple flag, in the firm hands of workers rise slogans, telling about the beloved Communist Party, the Soviet government, telling about the people’s unwavering will to protect peace, about the unshakable Soviet people’s friends.
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