Overview
- The newly released 1944 acts detail mass killings in Krasnoarmeysk, recording 911 civilian deaths in the town, 1,161 across the district, and 14,286 Soviet POWs killed, including 13,125 at local camps.
- One document alleges local police chief Vechyrov and his aide Makarovsky set cells ablaze during the German retreat, killing 48 detained Soviet and party activists.
- The FSB’s Red Book draws on a declassified 1964 KGB compilation listing alleged traitors, foreign agents, members of punitive units and other state criminals living in Western countries.
- Within the new rubric, the FSB posted personal data on alleged collaborators who later lived in Canada, including Vladas Aizinas, Anatoly Aksyonov, Valter Allert and Gennady Andryushkevich, with residences cited in Toronto, Port Colborne and Edmonton.
- TASS reports the published KGB archives include 12 individuals linked to Canada, with entries noting origins across the former Belarusian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian SSRs as well as the Kirov and Smolensk regions.