LATVIA, SECOND WORLD WAR, RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, FOREST FIGHTERS,NEW RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF THE SOVIET UNION'S POLICY OF THE BALTIC COUNTRIES: BOOKS ONLY
For those of you who are interested in the history of the Baltic countries I recommend the following books:
Three photos taken by me from the book: "The Unknown War "
COMMENTS ON AN OLD AND FORGOTTEN BOOK IN YEAR 2021: ALBERT
KALME AND HIS REPORTS ON THE OCCUPATION OF THE LATVIA AFTER THE SECOND WORLD
WAR.
THE GOAL AND MAIN SOURCES FOR MY REPORT
The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten published two alarming
information about the arrest of Aleksej Navainyi on March 13 and 14 2021. The
information published made me think about an old and forgotten book which a
friend of mine gave me some days ago. Old and forgotten was the book written by
Albert Kalme.The title of the book is: Soviet Blood Works in the Baltics. But
the issue presented by the writers of the book woke me up again. The book was
published in Sweden in Stockholm in 1948. About 73 years ago only. Two main
sources are contenting alarming political information dealing with issues that
we hoped belonged to the academic world for close evaluation only. No. The
world has not been left for academic studies only. Even if the Second World War
ended in 1945, we still have to face the conflict between democratic ideas and
the old system of traditional dictatorship. We are not moving forward worldwide
in the field of the fight for democracy-sorry.
ALBERT KALME: SOVIET BLOOD WORKS IN THE BALTIC
It is not easy to find correct information about the Latvian
writer whose name was Albert Kalme. My first impression was negative
approaching the book: Fake News once more? Cold War propagation published as an
attack on the Soviet Union who lost about 20 million people during the Second
World War? Only Cold War information telling all that the war was won by
American soldiers only? But the book is not written by Albert Kalme only. Peteris
Leitans has contributed with a report dealing with the communism as a political
tool for running any country.
Peteris Leitans was a Latvian lawyer and politician who was
born in 1879 and died in 1949 as a political refugee in Sweden.He has written
the introduction to the book. During the German occupation of Latvia he worked
for the Civil Department of the Jurdicial Chamber.At the end of the war in 1944
he escaped to Sweden where he worked as a journalist.
LATVIA, ESTONIA AND LITHUANIA
After 1945 we got less and less official information about
the fate and future of the people living in the Baltic countries. Few knew that
the winners of the war had unofficially accepted the occupation of the Baltic
countries demanded by Stalin himself.
Few information was published about the fight against the
occupations that went on in all three countries after 1945. But USA knew about
the situation. CIA made attempts to support the forest fighters but invain. The
CIA launched active operations in Latvia in 1952 chaired by the future CIA
director William Colby. The operations were set up in Stockholm by Office of
Policy Cordination(OPC).The missions failed.
SOVIET BLOOD WORKS IN THE BALTIC
The content:
The book which I read, was written in Swedish. Let me set up
a list of the main issues dealt with in the book:
-The introduction of communism as a political tool for the
development of the society
-The official historical report of the political situation
of Latvia
-The Second World War and the occupations of Latvia
-A critical report for the officail policy of communism introduced
by Soviet Union in 1948
-A detailed evaluation of the administration of communism as
a system in Latvia and worldwide
-The set up of concentration camps in Soviet Union and the
deportation of people from Latvia
- The policy of execution of unwanted people of Latvia
- The imperialistic policy of Soviet Union in 1948
- Statistical information about Latvia
The book was published in Sweden in 1948- about 73 years
ago.
CONCLUSION
The facts presented by the writers of the book are suppost
to have a historical value only in year
2021-I hope. But the treatment and the arrest of Aleksej Navainyj in 2021 are
not information of a positive development of the freedom of speech and the
policy of the freedom of political actions.
Aleksej Navainyi has been moved from the prison camp: IK-21 located in the district of Vladimir outside the city of Moscow to an unknown prison.
Vincent Hunt published the book: « Up against the wall. The KGB and Latvia» in 2019. I bought the book at the Occupation Museum in Riga during a study visit to Riga.On the list of persons who have studied the occupation of Latvia by Soviet Union , Inese Dreimane is quoted eight times. During a conference in Riga set up by Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council(BAAC), I had a meeting with the Latvian researcher Ines Dreimane. The reports written by her are reports of a national tragedy. She has talked to people who participated in the resistance movement after the war. Many of the forest fighters believed in the news that support will be given them by Western countries. The military actions made by CIA from Stocholm are reported in the book written by Vincent Hunt. It is important to mention that the writer has included sources from audiovisual archives: Radio reports, movies and archival footage. Splendid policy made Vincent Hunt who has understood the work and importance of audiovisual archives worldwide!
Albert Kalme: Sovjets blodsdåd i Baltikum.I dokumentarisk
belysning. Med inledning och avslutning samt en kort øversikt øver bolsjevismens
uppkomst och utveckling av senator P. Leitans. Øversettningen er utført från
førfatterens lettiska manuskript av William Freij..
Stocholm. Bokførlaget Natur och Kultur. 1948. 284 sider.Illustrasjoner.
