to baltinsh's question, what should he do? pozdnyakov, having glanced over the report again, abruptly slammed the folder shut. and sent it to the safe. for some time they sat in complete silence. the russian liberation army was connected with the latvian ss legion, and its representative office was in riga. but the world still learned the contents of the report. in 1956. in the military history journal of the white migration , the sentry, who surrendered in paris, right up to in 1988, an article by valdis baltins was published under the title "i dare not remain silent". it was about the terrible atrocities committed during the punitive operation "about what latvian legionnaires from the latvian ss battalion did on belarusian soil. i don't remember the name of the village where my attention was drawn to a cloud of flies circling over a wooden barrel. looking into the barrel, i saw severed men's heads in it. some had moustaches and beards. after talking with the surviving residents, we had no doubt that latvian ss men also opera