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Dmitrijs
December 3, 2019
The Corner House, or the former headquarters of the USSR State Security Committee (KGB), is still a symbol of occupation and captivity for the Latvian nation and has now opened its doors to visitors.
Jānis
August 8, 2018
Museum of represive occupation regime
Roberts
December 10, 2015
The KGB building, or the Corner House, became the most vivid symbol of the totalitarian regime during five decades of Latvian occupation; it remains a potent reminder of the last century.
#RigaBackstage
February 7, 2022
Former KGB headquarters known as The Corner House, where political prisoners would be taken and subject to torture and worse. The city of Riga came under Soviet control in 1940, and the brutal new leaders brought with them the dreaded KGB secret police. Setting up shop in the Corner House, a secretive headquarters in the middle of the city, the KGB began summoning people to uncertain fates within the depths of the building. “Undesirable Elements” could be picked up for crimes as small as having “anti-Soviet conversations” or “instigating panic.” Many of the people captured by the KGB were executed in a killing area in the basement of the Corner House. Still others were crammed into cells with dozens of other prisoners, and made to sweat and go mad with thirst as the basement was kept at around 85 degrees F.
Former KGB headquarters known as The Corner House, where political prisoners would be taken and subject to torture and worse. The city of Riga came under Soviet control in 1940, and the brutal new leaders brought with them the dreaded KGB secret police. Setting up shop in the Corner House, a secret…
Ilze
March 1, 2019
Recently re-opened to the public, the former KGB headquarters in riga offers a window into a dark corner of the recent history of Latvia.
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