Zakharova called video of the “forest brothers” NATO’s attempt to distort history
Foreign Ministry spokesman reminded that as a result of the sabotage of the so-called forest brothers, among whom were officers of the SS, killed thousands of civilians.
MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/. The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova urged the public to stop NATO’s attempts to distort history. So the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry reacted to posted on Twitter of the Alliance, a video about fighters with the Soviet authorities in the Baltic States.
“Don’t stay indifferent, this is a historical perversion, deliberately disseminated NATO to undermine the outcome of Nuremberg, you need to stop! If today Bandera — the hero and the “Forest brothers” partisans, which saved the Baltic, then what will happen tomorrow?” — Zakharov wrote on his page in Facebook.
Foreign Ministry spokesman reminded that the “forest brothers” — the organization, which included including SS officers, as a result of its acts of sabotage killed thousands of civilians.
Zakharova said that the organization until the mid-1950s years were Western intelligence agencies, NATO known. “There are declassified, though podredaktirovat materials CIA on this subject”, she added.
On Wednesday, NATO posted a video about the so-called forest brothers, fought against Soviet power in the Baltic States in the 1940-50-ies, describing them as fighters against the “Soviet invaders”.
This is the story of the Forest Brothers who fought the Soviet army for their homelands after WWII pic.twitter.com/4JcfuJPmeO
— NATO (@NATO) 11 Jul 2017
The video tells the story of approximately 50 thousand inhabitants of the Baltic republics, which led the armed struggle against Soviet power after the Second world war.