"Placing on the portal of the Ministry of Defense in many ways an unprecedented information resource dedicated to the liberation of the Baltic States from the fascist invaders by the Red Army puts a barrier to the falsification of history that is gaining momentum, documenting many of its false myths, is becoming an important element in the system of military-patriotic education of young people," the press service.
In a special section on the website of the department there are combat reports from commanders, testifying to the selfless actions of military units and the exploits of individual soldiers, as well as for the first time published data on concentration camps and punitive operations of the fascists in Lithuania during the Great Patriotic War.
"The documents recreate the horror of this terrible deadly" death factory ", - stressed in the Russian military.
According to the Ministry of Defense, in a few days in November 1941, the punitive detachments of the German troops killed about 900 people.
When this is about 200 people were hijacked to Germany.
About 40 thousand Jews living in Kaunas were herded into the Jewish ghetto, which was located in the Villampolsky settlement.
“In total, the fascists destroyed up to 40 thousand Soviet citizens and prisoners of war in Kaunas, as well as more than 50 thousand people brought from France, Belgium, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other countries,” the ministry said.