Assault on District Rovno ETO (id:#61217)

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Kaunas, Lithuania 1941-06-22 (21 others)

Overview:

During the autumn of 1939, following the infamous Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, Stalin pressured the Baltic States to accept Red Army garrisons. In June 1940, a full Soviet occupation began, followed by pure annexation in August. Thereafter, the NKVD began to hunt down any form of opposition until, in the first days of June 1941, mass deportations to Siberia occurred. Baltic Nationalists tried to find external support. The Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) established contact with the German Abwehr but had already organized mostly as a guerrilla force on its own. In the early hours of June 22 with bomber aircraft overhead and the rumour of artillery fire to the west, LAF leaders decided to launch several assaults against the hated Russians. In Kaunas (Rovno to the Russians), four large groups of guerrilla fighters attacked the NKVD positions.

Defender: Russian (1st NKVD Motorised Regiment)  

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