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Vasily Kononov
[...]was a Soviet partisan during during World War II, who was convicted by Latvian Supreme Court as a war criminal. He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity.
Kononov was convicted for his role in three deaths in Mazie Bati, a Latvian village where local inhabitants had denounced alleged partisans who were then killed by German troops. A short time later Kononov led a unit, posing as German Wehrmacht personnel, into the village and killed nine civilians, including three women, one in the late stages of pregnancy who was burned alive. A Latvian court declared the killing of the three women a war crime.
(from the Wikipedia entry)

The case was very public at the time, and lead to much antagonizing. In the Soviet and later also Russian rhetoric the only WWII war criminals were Nazis and their collaborants, and trying a decorated Soviet war veteran for crimes agianst humanity was unheard of - even unthinkable just ten years prior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Kononov





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