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Ints Cālītis

1931 – 2023

Latvian dissident

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Lived 1931 – 2023 (aged 92). Ints Cālītis was a Latvian politician and resistance fighter.

Ints Cālītis (5 March 1931 – 1 July 2023) was a Latvian politician and political prisoner.

Biography Ints Cālītis was first arrested in 1949, when he was 17 years old and still in school, accused of having created an "anti-Soviet underground organization". He was sentenced to 25 years in a camp near Magadan in the far east of Russia. Following the amnesty after Joseph Stalin's death, he was eventually able to return to Latvia in 1956. In 1958 he was arrested for the second time, accused of "writing anti-Soviet letters" and trying to regroup his former underground organization. He was sentenced to six years in the correctional labour camp of Mordovia, from which he returned to Latvia in 1964.

These experiences did not stop him from engaging in dissident activities. In 1977 he collaborated with Viktors Kalniņš and Estonian and Lithuanian dissidents to try to create the "Estonian-Latvian-Lithuanian National Movement Main Committee". In 1979 he signed the Baltic Appeal. In 1981 he signed an open letter asking to turn Northern Europe into a nuclear-free zone. Cālītis was released from prison in 1986 and became active in the Popular Front of Latvia.

Cālītis died on 1 July 2023, at the age of 92.

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Education
Riga State Gymnasium No.1, Riga Secondary School No. 49
Awards
Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class; Officer of the Order of the Cross of Vytis

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Frequently asked questions

Who was Ints Cālītis?

Latvian dissident

When was Ints Cālītis born?

Ints Cālītis was born on 5 March 1931 in Riga.

When did Ints Cālītis die?

Ints Cālītis died on 1 July 2023.

What was Ints Cālītis's occupation?

Ints Cālītis was a politician and resistance fighter.

What nationality was Ints Cālītis?

Ints Cālītis was Latvian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ints Cālītis

· Wikidata: Q20559613

· DBpedia: Ints Cālītis

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