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MOSCOW, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. Moscow will make the issue of the interpretation of the NATO theme “forest brothers” on the agenda of the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday, said Russia’s permanent representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich.
“I’ll tell you in advance, tomorrow at the meeting of the Permanent Council we make and the facts will show how the Alliance after years of raises this topic in a very strange context, which does not conform to the mandate of the Alliance and do not understand the purpose why this theme unwinds. Look at the reaction,” – said Lukashevich in the framework of the bridge of Vienna, organized by MIA “Russia today”.
According to the diplomat, he is “not sure” that the Russian side will receive “some kind of coherent reaction from the Baltic States.” “However, this issue was entered into the register of the Permanent Council, and we will be on a regular basis to lift,” he added.
The so-called “forest brothers” in 1944-1953 years actively fought against the Soviet power on the territory of the Baltic countries, many of them fought in the ranks of the national battalions of the SS. Last week NATO released a documentary feature video in which the “forest brothers” presented by heroes, occupied solely by the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union and enjoyed broad support from the civilian population, who wanted to restore the statehood. The authors of the video say that the spirit of the “forest brothers” living in a modern special forces of the armed forces of the three Baltic countries.