Ryazan FSB declassified archives on the fight against the “forest brothers” in the Baltic States

On November 9, the world celebrates the International Day against Fascism, Racism and Antisemitism. By the memorable date, the FSB in the Ryazan region declassified archival documents about the struggle of Soviet Chekists with the bandit underground in the Baltic States. The material was published by “Ryazan reports”. The article indicates that paramilitary detachments in Latvia were created in 1905, but the movement took a mass character after the Great Patriotic War. They included many “national cadres” from the Nazi SS battalions.

The fight against the bandit underground was carried out by the formations of the Red Army, SMERSH and the bodies of the NKGB-MGB. In January 1945, UNKGB officers in the Ryazan region - captains Klimov and Kalitin - were sent on a business trip to Riga. The award lists indicate that they seized and arrested dozens of accomplices of the German occupiers.

Decades after the Nuremberg Tribunal, humanity faced the glorification of Nazism. According to Russian diplomats, Europe is witnessing a shift from covert support to open legalization of neo-Nazi ideas. In some countries, marches of SS legionnaires are held and monuments to soldiers-liberators are demolished.

As then, decades later, Russian FSB officers continue their uncompromising struggle against any manifestations of neo-Nazism and attempts to falsify history.