After the German surrender, it became clear that Soviet forces were there to stay, and Latvian national partisans, soon joined by some who had collaborated with the Germans, began to fight against the new occupier.
Pas dorezimit te gjermaneve, u be e qarte qe forcat sovjetike do te qendronin, dhe partizanet nacionale letoneze, te bashkuar dhe nga disa qe bashkepunuan me gjermanet, filluan te luftonin kunder pushtuesit te ri.