In 1918, Gustavs Celminš joined the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Latvian National Armed Forces in the Kalpaks Battalion after the Latvian War of Independence 1918-1920 just started but on May 22, 1919 was promoted to lieutenant and in 1921 he was rewarded with a medal called the "Order Of The War Of Lāčplēsis" but in 1924 he left the army. Gustavs Celminš just became a minister or secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1925 to 1927 and in 1929, he graduated from the University Of Latvia because of his experience with Philology and Philosophy along with being a rapporteur of the Ministry Of Finance but in 1930 he held the position of vice-director of the State Department Of Agriculture.
When the Soviet Union invaded Latvia in 1940, They freed the Communists but not the Pērkonkrusts because Instead were arrested again also some of them are being deported to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Siberian gulags but when Nazi Germany does Operation Barbarossa to occupied and liberate Latvia in 1941, Gustavs Celminš has moved back to Latvia to regained leadership of the original Pērkonkrusts in the service of the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination German Wehrmacht. The Pērkonkrusts have been restored with 15,000 members but many of them held positions in institutions set up by the German occupation such as the Latvian Auxiliary Police, the Schutzstaffel, and the Sicherheitsdienst but also led the Latvian press that is allowed by the occupying authorities. On July 25, 1941, Gustavs Celminš offered Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Alfred Rosenberg to establish two Divisions of Latvian Pērkonkrusts but on August 17, 1941, however, the group was dissolved after the Germans found out that the group was Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anti-German and most of the members sent to concentration camps in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Bavaria. After the Pērkonkrusts have banned, some of its members still collaborate with Nazi Germany while others mostly engaged in resistance that secretly lead by Gustavs Celminš and also he created the Latvian Articles Free Latvia in 1943 as an illegal newspaper press but he was arrested on March 14, 1944, by the Gestapo to be sent into the Flossenbürg concentration camp but later Dachau also he is set free by American soldiers On May 5, 1945.
After World War II (1939-1945), Gustavs Celminš moved to Italy, where he created another newspaper press called Brīvā Latvija aka Free Latvia In 1947 he published the autobiographic book called Eiropas krustceļos/At The Crossroads Of Europe. In 1949 he moved to the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the United States where he becomes an instructor at Syracuse University's Armed Forces School in the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination New York state from 1950 to 1952 and in the year 1951 he was the director of the Foreign Language program for the US Air Force while also a television lecturer about the USSR and communism. In 1954 he moved to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mexico as a manufacturer but he moved back to the United States as a librarian at Trinity University located in San Antonio, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Texas from 1956 to 1958. In 1959 he became a professor of Russian studies at St. Mary's University and he died on April 10, 1968, at the age of 69.
Igors Šiškins was born on June 9, 1959, in Rēzekne inside the Soviet Union with his Russian father & Latvian mother that split apart from each other and in 1975 he graduated from the Professional Builders Technical High School then he worked his life at a driver, locksmith, and stonecutter.
In the early 1990s, the Pērkonkrusts have been revived by Jānis Rība whose stated goal was to overthrow the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Liberal government for a Latvian Latvia and Igors Šiškins joined this pre-World War II movement. The Pērkonkrusts has the Rība's Defenders and it was an unregistered splinter group from the self-proclaimed successor organization of the pre-World War 2 Aizsargi but in 1995 three former members left this group and joined up with martial artist Juris Rečs to reconstitute the Pērkonkrusts in a proper way. Members of the Pērkonkrusts tried to bomb the Soviet Victory Memorial but failed until on June 5, 1997, they successfully did it with two members having lost their lives and Latvian authorities have linked Igors Šiškins to the bombings because he is a member of the Pērkonkrusts. In January 1998, the Latvian government began to arrest Pērkonkrusts members, first Igors Šiškins in August than most of their leaders in 2000 but they were realized one year later, and then the Pērkonkrusts were banned in 2006.
In the 2006 Latvian parliamentary elections, Igors Šiškins tried to get elected into the Latvian government with a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Lithuanian Liberal Conservative political party but it only received 0.1% of the vote so he is not elected and also Igors Šiškins took part in an event called the "Remembrance Day Of The Latvian Legionnaires" to remember some Pērkonkrusts soldiers that died for the Waffen SS. Igors Šiškins founded the Gustavs Celmiņš Centre (GCC) in 2007 as a successor to the Pērkonkrusts and to preserve the Dievturība religion but after that Igors Šiškins was arrested for wearing forbidden symbols in public on May 9th 2007 along with being arrested by doing the same thing on May 9th 2007. Igors Šiškins has been arrested again along with his buddy during a halted march commemorating the liberation of Riga from the Soviets on July 1st 1941 and in 2012 he invited representatives from Far-Right groups in Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Ukraine, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Russia, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Germany & Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Poland to celebrate the "Remembrance Day Of The Latvian Legionnaires" but later he was arrested again but this time for attempting to purchase explosives and the Gustavs Celmiņš Centre (GCC) have been dissolved along with the website that is now fake news since 2016 also it was gone forever.
Before the Pērkonkrusts, there is the Ugunskrusts and it existed since November 5, 1931, after the Latvian Parliamentary Election of 1931, in which the far-right candidates failed to gain power but also the Ugunskrusts was created by Adolfs Greble/J. Greble is a footballer in order to unite the former members of the Latvian National Club. The Ugunskrusts has different names to itself such as Fire Cross, Firecracker & Firecrust but also the Ugunskrusts was registered by Riga Regional Court on January 19, 1932 and it has a founding meeting with the Riga Latvian Society (1868-Today) that took on January 24, 1932, at Riga with 69 people in it. The Ugunskrusts did not reach 200 members in the first months but in the summer of 1932, T-Groups/Alarm groups began to be formed to protect the Ugunskrusts after attacks by left-wing organizations for being Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anti-Semitic, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Anti-Democratic & Anti-German along with sympathy for Fascist Italy and on August 21, 1932, the Ugunskrusts have published a weekly newspaper called Firecracker even it was the same name but on September 14, 1932, the Riga Regional Court the seized the first four issues.
At the start of 1933, the Ugunskrusts had achieved some success among academic youth & student corporations, for example, they win 1 out of 40 seats in the elections of the University Of Latvia, and then the Ugunskrusts gained more members. In March 1933 an Physical Education Society called the Patriotic Guardian claimed to have activities that were closely related to the Ugunskrusts and it has T-Groups/Alarm Groups in it. On March 17, 1933, the Latvian government adopted a decision on the ban of the Ugunskrusts but instead on March 27, 1933, they banned the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Latvian National Socialist Party and on April 12, 1933, the Ugunskrusts was dissolved with a ban.
How to Draw
Draw a ball.
Fill it with maroon.
Flag of Pērkonkrusts Draw the Mara's Cross in white.
In the middle of the Mara's cross, draw a swastika in gold.
