On Atbrīvošanas Avenue in Rēzekne, on 13 August 1992, the restored Latgale Liberation Monument “United for Latvia”, popularly called “Latgales Māra”, was formally unveiled. The original, unveiled in 1939, had been toppled twice by Soviet authorities; the second time, in 1950, it was destroyed, and a Lenin monument was later placed on the site. The new bronze group was made from Kārlis Jansons’s materials by his son Andrejs Jansons with Indulis Folkmanis; it was cast in Tallinn, while the pedestal was made in Saint Petersburg.

The monument was originally created to commemorate the War of Independence and to affirm Latgale’s place within the Latvian state. Its return in 1992 took place during the First World Latgalian Gathering, at a time when public space was also recovering names and memorial signs erased during the Soviet occupation.