The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands
On 18th October 2023 the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University, England held an event in which Dan Kaszeta talks to Donatas Kupciunas about his book: The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance against the Nazis and Soviets.
They discussed the impact of this important history on contemporary geopolitics in the Baltic Sea region. A common view is that the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945. However, fighting continued for over a decade in the Baltic states. Stuck between Stalin’s USSR and Hitler's Reich the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as ‘liberation’. The video recording is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3BrgfYt30 (1h 31m).
They discussed the impact of this important history on contemporary geopolitics in the Baltic Sea region. A common view is that the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945. However, fighting continued for over a decade in the Baltic states. Stuck between Stalin’s USSR and Hitler's Reich the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as ‘liberation’. The video recording is now available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3BrgfYt30 (1h 31m).