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KGB Building
KGB BUILDING
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia presents exhibition: History of KGB in Latvia and guided tours of the cell block
The Cheka, officially the State Security Committee (KGB), was a repressive institution of the USSR including Soviet occupied Latvian SSR.
The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) was the predecessor of the KGB, and it started to use the so called Corner Building from the autumn of 1940.
In this building, tens of thousands of Latvian citizens were imprisoned, tortured and interrogated under inhumane conditions, on the accusation that they were active opponents of the communist regime.
In 1991, the Supreme Council of the restored Republic of Latvia declared the activities of the KGB to be criminal and against the interests of the people of Latvia. The KGB was dissolved.
Presently, the building serves as a reminder of human rights violations committed by the Soviet repressive institutions.