Several hundred people in the Latvian capital Riga have remembered soldiers who fought on the side of German forces against Soviet troops during World War II. <br /><br /> The procession started out from St.John’s Church in Old Riga, where a church service was held, to the Freedom Monument in downtown Riga to lay flowers.<br /><br /> A large number of police officers were present.<br /><br /> The country remembers fallen Latvians on March 16 every year, but it’s not an official commemoration day.<br /><br /> “I had never seen so much police. But I am glad that they are well dressed and that the state cares about us. Our enemy is very scared about the fact that we are not afraid.”<br /><br /> Latvians commemorate fighting against Soviet occupation, however anti-fascist organisations object to what they call a glorification of Nazism.<br /><br /> Anti-Nazi activists dressed in overalls reading “disinfection” symbolically cleansed the area at the end of the procession around the city’s Freedom Monument.
