Latvia's former KGB headquarters gives up its dark secrets

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Latvia's former KGB headquarters gives up its dark secrets

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/latvias-former-kgb-headquarters-gives-dark-secrets-060324354.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/OdbjNwRtWn70qBCXYm4dfA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/753cca014d0ac424b0df20181c0a9af1471ce215.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="People walk past the 'Stura maja' or 'Corner house', the former headquarters of the Soviet KGB in Riga, Latvia, on July 9, 2014" align="left" title="People walk past the 'Stura maja' or 'Corner house', the former headquarters of the Soviet KGB in Riga, Latvia, on July 9, 2014" border="0" /></a>The &quot;House on the Corner&quot; was one of the most feared places in Latvia during Soviet times, but now people are flocking to the former KGB headquarters in the capital Riga, keen to uncover its dark secrets. Following the 1940 Soviet takeover, the KGB secret police, or Cheka, set up its headquarters in the building on what is now Freedom Street, but was then called Lenin Street. It was then that locals starting referring to the building using the euphemism &quot;the House on the Corner&quot;. Shuttered up as the KGB was disbanded after Latvia broke free from the crumbling Soviet Union in 1991, it finally re-opened its doors to the public this summer with a temporary exhibition as part of Riga's year as a European Capital of Culture.</p><br clear="all"/>

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