It was this gymnasium that the only People's Artist of the USSR, Hary Liepins, who served in the SS, graduated from. In 1942, at the age of 15, he added 1.5 years to himself in order to study a grade older. This amendment led to the fact that in 1943 he was drafted into the Luftwaffe SS, into the airfield support unit in Kursen. After serving 9 months, he did not want to retreat to Germany and surrendered. After a special check of the NKVD - 6 years in Vorkuta, he returned to happy Riga, graduated from the studio of the Riga Drama Theater in which he played Hamlet, Don Quixote, Prince Myshkin, King Richard... In 1956, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, and in 1978 - People's Artist of the USSR... Since 1955, in the big cinema, the actor's filmography includes more than 40 films! There are also honored artists with a similar fate... Victor Lorenz was mobilized in 1944 to the Latvian Volunteer Battalion (far from volunteer), captured, briefly exiled to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, filming, including in the poignant film about the Patriotic War "Go and See". In 1987 - Honored Artist of the LSSR. Mikhail Mikhalkov, Nikita Mikhalkov's uncle and Sergey Mikhalkov's brother. He served in the NKVD, was soon captured, then strangely falls into the quartermaster service of the SS division Reich, deserted, five years of camps, peaceful life, poems on patriotic themes and drama... The review is not unambiguous, whether this is normal or not, it's up to everyone to decide for themselves, I will be glad to hear any of your opinions..