such reports from the head of the ussr foreign intelligence pavel fitin to the country's top leadership about the facts of the nazi atrocities on the territory of the bssr were received almost daily from the first days of the war. but... one thing shocked the world. the prosecutor general's office of the republic of belarus. pripyat marshes. in january 1942, the headquarters of the fourth shock army of the kalinin front came into possession of an archive captured from the germans during toropitsko-kholmskaya and velezhskaya offensive operations. military translators hastily processed the intelligence and operational documents of the fascists. reports. among them, attention was drawn to the reports of the regimental commanders of the ss cavalry brigade s'. delivered to moscow. on april 27, 1942 , the people's commissar of foreign affairs of the ussr vyacheslav molotov sent a note to the government and missions of countries not at war with the soviet union. in it, about the atrocities of the commanders of the cavalry brigade. s during the so-called pacifying pripetskaya operations. today,