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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
By the way, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania did not fight on the Russian side.
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I guess you cannot put it 100% that way on these countries even though the guerilla warfare fought the Red Army once Barbarossa had begun.
For example Estonia: First Soviet occupation 1940-41
The Estonian army was reorganised into the 22nd Territorial Rifle Brigade, and many senior officers were persecuted.
In mid-July 1941, large Red Army forces managed to halt the German advance in Central Estonia — an advance that had been rapid with the help of the resistance movement for half a month. This gave the Soviet occupation regime time to introduce compulsory conscription in North Estonia and settle scores with the guerrillas and their civilian supporters.
The Soviet occupation authorities managed to conscript over 30 000 men and take them to Russia. Instead of serving at the front, the Estonians, together with several other ‘untrustworthy’ nations, were drafted into the labour battalions in Northern Russia where hard work and famine killed about one third of the conscripted men.
Estonica : History : The Summer War