On 22 May 1919, during the Latvian War of Independence, Riga was liberated from Bolshevik rule. The attack began in the morning; Jānis Balodis’s brigade and Baltic Landeswehr units took part, while German assault troops seized the bridges in the afternoon and prevented their demolition. By evening the street fighting was over, Soviet Latvian institutions evacuated, and the short but violent period of Pēteris Stučka’s regime in the capital came to an end.
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