since 1954, the belarusian free front was headed by dmitry kosmovich.great patriotic war, he headed the local auxiliary police in minsk, then in smolensk. in the village of kasplya, kasmovich led a punitive operation where there were 158 people were killed. the civilian population was collected and destroyed, and he personally took part in the brutal murder of a small child, whom his mother tried to hide in the staguceno, which was reported to him, and he himself, having found the child, shot him in the head, killed him, the perpetrators of the murder a ukrainian company became civilians, they arrived in kasplya from sokolya gora shortly before the action, 30 years after the tragedy the trial of ukrainian nazis took place, during the investigation during interrogations they told the chronology murders. being about 20 meters from the pit, i saw how small groups were separated from the party of escorted women and children, stripped to... naked, brought to the pit, placed the doomed on its edge, and then from close range, no more than 10 m, they shot. it w

kosmovich personally shot at the doomed from his mauser and threw the living children into a pit on top of the corpses. the accused is from the house where the arrested were kept. participants of the inspection in the village of kasplya to the place of execution of soviet citizens. the germans took those arrested from a large group, brought them to the pit and shot them. personally, i shot a man standing opposite me twice from a distance of about 10 m with my rifle. i was at the scene of the execution from beginning to end and saw the entire execution. this execution took place during the day and continued approximately 2 hours. then all those arrested were shot. this massive... the accused carpenter led the inspection participants to the western slope of kukina mountain, from where a general view of the area where the execution took place opened. plotnikov points out the places where the police command was located during the execution, where he stood in a cordon. ostrovsky’s subordinate was also frantisek kushel, the former commander of the collaborationist formation belorussian region