sentences:  From 1969 onwards, it was also styled as an official organ of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR as well.The newspaper that became "Sovetskaya Latviya" was first published in 1940, following the Soviet takeover of Latvia, and the establishment of a monopoly on power by the Communist Party.During this first period, it was named "Nasha Pravda" (, 1919) and "Proletarskaya Pravda" (, 1940).