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A Latvian dissident said police cordoned off a monument in the Latvian capital of Riga to prevent a second demonstration by protesters recalling the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact, which led to the Soviet takeover of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 1940. In a telephone interview from Riga, Janis Roskalns said people were allowed to approach the monument, dedicated to World War II victims, during the day but that police sealed off the area in the evening. The day before, thousands protested in the capitals of the three Baltic Soviet republics to call for the independence of the republics.
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