Canada’s lawmakers have adopted a resolution calling on the government to name Aug. 23 a “Black Ribbon Day” in remembrance of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Secret protocols to the treaty carved up Eastern Europe—including Latvia—into territory to be controlled by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
The House of Commons on Nov. 30 gave unanimous consent to the resolution, which among other points noted that knowledge in Canada about the totalitarian regimes and how they terrorized people in Central and Eastern Europe is “still alarmingly superficial and inadequate.”
In memoriam of one of the consequences of the pact: June 14, 1941, a cattlecar, a barge, and death for two people (and many others):
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Wikipedia: "Between 1930 and 1989, more than 500,000 people were banished to Narym and its surroundings."
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