Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tashar jiragen ruwa da jari-hujja na Liepāja da Ventspils sune burin Joseph Stalin. Ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop a wani bangare don samun iko da wannan yanki. Lokacin da Tarayyar Soviet ta mamaye kuma ta haɗu da Latvia a 1940, ta mallaki mallakar mallakar mallaka. An kama dubban tsoffin masu mallaka kuma
aka kai su sansanin gulag a Siberiya.