in january 1942, the headquarters of the fourth shock army of the kalinin front had at its disposal anrchive captured from the germans during the toropets-kholmskaya war. the document was reported personally to the commander of the fourth shock army, colonel general andrei ivanovich eremenko. after studying the reports, it was decided to forward them. headquarters of the supreme high command. the materials were urgently delivered to moscow. april 27, 1942 people's commissar for foreign affairs ussr vyacheslav molotov sent a note to the government and missions of countries not at war with the soviet union. it is about the atrocities of the commanders of the ss cavalry brigade during the so-called pacifying pripet operation. witnesses of those terrible events are still alive today. their memories, materials from the prosecutor general's office of belarus about the newly discovered facts of genocide against civilians, help to understand that... the fasta operation was carried out in two stages: the goal was to clear the occupied territories from encirclement, partisans, communists and act