This episode explores how the Baltic region became one of the Cold War’s first testing grounds.

Even during the Second World War, some Baltic nationalists collaborated with occupying German forces. After the war, an anti-Soviet armed underground movement known as the ‘Forest Brothers’ gained momentum in the region.

In 1947, the United States National Security Council adopted NSC 4-A, a secret document tasking the CIA with conducting covert subversive operations against the Soviet Union and its allies.

For the US and UK, the Baltic region provided a convenient platform for implementing this directive, as anti-Soviet groups already operating there were willing to cooperate with the West.

The Soviet Union responded swiftly. State security agencies launched large-scale counterintelligence operations that infiltrated Baltic underground networks, intercepted communication channels with the West, and exploited failed enemy operations to their advantage.

Directed by:
Maksim Sergeev

Written by:
Viktor Romanov

Producer:
Nora Nevskaya

Video Editor:
Maksim Sergeev

Sound Designer:
Aleksey Pozharov
Sergey Ognev

Graphics:
Fyodor Gai

Transcribed by:
Ivetta Punanova
Vasily Punanov

The programme uses video materials from the NET-FILM newsreel and documentary film archive.

This is the last installment of the series about the unknown Cold War. But the whole story wouldn’t be complete without an episode about the NATO pact – a Nazi creation built on ideological anti-Soviet propaganda. The Cold War ended with NATO re-entering the hot war phase by destroying the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). Then NATO launched a series of criminal attacks on African countries and the Middle East, known as the ‘Arab Spring’, which spread to Ukraine and continues to this day.

More on that in the next film…