On the left:

Lidija Doroņina-Lasmane, member of the national resistance movement and dissident. 1960s. Arrested in 1946 for supporting national partisans, in 1970 for expression of dissatisfaction with the USSR intervention in Czechoslovakia, and in 1983 for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. The only Latvian woman to be convicted three times for anti-Soviet activities.

Photo: Lidija Doroņina-Lasmane private collection / unidentified author

On the right: 

Gunārs Astra, member of the national resistance movement and dissident. 1988. Arrested in 1961 for reading magazines published abroad, listening to the radio station “Voice of America” and expressing the opinion in conversations with his colleagues that Latvia was occupied in 1940. Until 1976, he was imprisoned in a maximum-security prison camp in the Mordovian ASSR and the Perm region of the Russian SFSR. In 1983, he was arrested a second time for possession and distribution of “anti-Soviet” literature. Sentenced to seven years in prison. He was imprisoned until February 1, 1988.

Photo; National Archives of Latvia – Latvian State Archives of Audiovisual Documents / Līvija Astra