This collection of documents is devoted to the most complex and urgent problem of relations between Russia and the Baltic countries today. The reader will be able to independently assess the situation on the eve of World War II in Latvia, Lithuania and the Baltic states, learn about the background of many political issues related to the division of European territories by the leading powers of the world at that time - the USSR, the USA, Great Britain, about the atrocities of nationalists during the period "fair rule of the Third Reich" - in particular, the organization of the ghetto in Latvia - and the post-war hopes of the Balts to ignite a new war "in which the Anglo-Saxon powers will defeat the Soviet Union, and the Baltic countries will again be transferred to the Nazis."