01-03-2009, 06:17 AM
Felix Wrote:I have the same ID card for a baltic partisan.
Nice document duo, although I'm guessing your ethnic Latt must have fought in Belarus.
This is an important distinction and without getting into 60-year-old politics, the Baltic peoples weren't too keen on Soviet rule and correspondingly Soviets often treated them as Nazi collaborators. Additionally, whenever you view Soviet maps showing partisan resistance centers, there are remarkably few (if any) such points indicated in the Baltic countries (compared to Russia, Ukraine, and Belorussia). Some of this is due to suitable terrain, yet...
I own several of these Belorussian documents, a Ukrainian one, and even a single Moldovan partisan document (which I posted on the forum), but has anyone seen a post-war, strictly Latvian, Lithuanian, or Estonian document for partisan unit participation done in the respective, ethnic languages?
