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Unpacking the History of the Baltic 'Forest Brothers'

Jul 27, 2017 | 09:15 GMT

War is never two dimensional. Edward Lucas considers one chapter of anti-Soviet resistance.

(PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia is fuming about a new NATO video celebrating the "Forest Brothers" anti-Soviet resistance in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- something outsiders mostly find baffling, since the guerrilla war against the Soviet occupation of the Baltics is not even a forgotten conflict, but one most people never knew about it in the first place....

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