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Forest Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2359 words) |
 | The Forest Brothers (also: Brothers of the Forest, Forest Brethren; Forest Brotherhood; in Estonian: metsavennad, in Latvian meža brÄļi, in Lithuanian miÅ¡ko broliai) were Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian guerillas (partisans) who fought against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and occupation of the three Baltic nations during, and after, World War II. |
| The last individual guerillas are known to have remained in hiding and evaded capture into the 1980s, by which time the Baltic states were pressing for independence through peaceful means. |
| A persisting motivation for many Forest Brothers was the hope that Cold War hostilities between the West (who never formally recognized the Soviet occupation) and the Soviet Union might escalate to an armed conflict in which the Baltic states would be liberated. |
| Heimosodat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (411 words) |
| Some of the conflicts were expeditions from Finland and some were risings by the people of these areas, where volunteers wanted either to help the people in their fight for independence or to annex the areas to Finland. |
| The phenomenon is closely linked to nationalism as Finland had just won its national independence, and a part of the population felt that they had obligations to help other Finnic peoples to attain the same. |
| Finland had, for the two next decades, a relatively high citizen participation in nationalistic activities (e.g Carelia-ideology and also Finnicization of the country and its institutions). |
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