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The Belarusian Central Council was a puppet government in Reichskommissariat Ostland during World War II. It was established by Nazi Germany within Reichskommissariat Ostland in 1943–44, following req
The Rada in Minsk, June 1943.
Wilhelm Kube in Minsk, May 1943
Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations was an international anti-communist organization founded as a coordinating center for anti-communist and nationalist émigré political organizations from Soviet and other
Belarusian Central Council
…evacuation, the BCR continued to receive orders from the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. After the end of the war, the BCR entered the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. At the end of 1945, Astroŭski held a special meeting of the "Belarusian Central Committee" which decided to temporarily suspend (but not to dissolve…
Alfred Rosenberg in his uniform as Minister of the East. What became the ABN was founded at his instigation in 1943.
Yaroslav Stetsko, the leader of the ABN from 1946 to 1986
Plaque unveiled by Yaroslav Stetsko, president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations at Bradford Cathedral
Public Law 86-90 which established Captive Nations Week in 1959