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Russian diplomat calls to quash NATO’s attempts to falsify history

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman reminded that among the Forest Brothers were SS soldiers and thousands of civilians were killed in the acts of sabotage they staged
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
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MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has called to quash NATO’s attempts to falsify history.

On Wednesday, NATO posted a video about the so-called Forest Brothers, or Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian guerrillas fighting against Soviet rule in the three Baltic republics in the 1940-1950s and called them fighters against ‘Soviet invaders.’

"Don’t stay indifferent, it is falsification of history deliberately propagated by NATO in order to revise the results of the Nuremberg Trials. And it must be quashed! If today they say that Bandera is a hero and the Forest Brothers are partisans saving the Baltic republics, what will we have tomorrow?" Zakharova wrote on her Facebook account.

She reminded that among the Forest Brothers were SS soldiers and thousands of civilians were killed in the acts of sabotage they staged. According to Zakharova, this organization was backed by Western security services up till the mid-1950s and NATO is well aware of that. "There are declassified, although slightly edited, CIA files on that matter," she added.