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It wasn’t only the Nazis who used the railway for mass deportations. In the pre-dawn hours of June 14, 1941, a synchronized knock echoed across thousands of doors in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Families were awoken by officers of the Soviet secret police (NKVD), read a brief decree, and given mere hours to pack a lifetime into a single suitcase. This was the beginning of the June…

Centrul de Relații Publice (CRP) al Serviciului Federal de Securitate (FSB) al Rusiei a publicat noi documente din Arhiva Centrală a FSB din Rusia privind activitățile Batalionului de Poliție 315 din Regimentul 2 de Poliție, care, în timp ce se afla pe teritoriul Ucrainei ocupate, a participat la împușcarea cetățenilor sovietici pașnici. Georgiana Arsene În special, publicația citează raportul…

The plight of the Baltic countries after the USSR invaded them in 1941 is lesson we must take from history so that we do not let it happen again.

In 1941, the Soviet police (NKVD) storm into the home of fifteen-year-old Lina and her family. Her well-educated Lithuanians parents were about to send her off to art school, a dream that will never come true. They’re told that they had thirty minutes to pack up all their belongings.  Their father is already missing, so Lina, her younger brother and her mom quickly stuff their cloths and a few…