Armen Gasparyan. A new cold war. Who will win this time? (№ 328047)

As for Herbert Cukurs, that he first became famous, having performed in 1933-1934 flying to Central Africa by plane, which he collected for several years. <...> In 1941, the brave conqueror of the sky, possessed of excessive vanity, becomes the right hand of the chief executioner of the Latvian Viktor Arajs and the actual "owner" of the Riga ghetto. It is during the shootings yelled: "Give me to drink blood!" He toured the ghetto in an open car and shoot all the oncoming of the Jews, exulting, when they come. Is it in Riga was called "the executioner of Jewish children." Retribution found Cukurs in 1965 in South America. Not having achieved the official issuance of the Punisher, agents of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad gave the sentence. It was one of the most brilliant operations of Israel's secret service. Here are the heroes currently popular in Latvia. <...> And now imagine the situation - you arrive in the Latvian capital Riga, a wonderful old European city. In every gift shop you can see an envelope on which there is a picture of Herbert Cukurs, a war criminal and the Punisher. Instead of crowning his portrait is the inscription: "Latvian when you will be difficult, remember that Herbert Cukurs was even harder!"