The Wallenberg family asks Putin to reveal the circumstances of the death of the diplomat

The family of Raul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Second World War, wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin with a request to shed light on the circumstances of the death of the legendary Swedish diplomat, reports AFP. Turning to the Russian president, the authors of the letter noted that in his power to "put an end to this long test", which fell to the share of the family.

Relatives of Wallenberg ask Putin to open access to archives, in which, in their opinion, certificates of the fate of the diplomat may contain. The niece of Wallenberg Louise von Dardel will try to pass a letter to Putin in Brussels, where the Russian president will come this week to participate in the Russia-ES summit.

In September, the Wallenberg family turned to US President Barack Obama with a request to put a pressure on Russia in the investigation of the death of a diplomat.

In January 2012, the Sweden authorities then began a new investigation into the circumstances of the death of the diplomat . Sweden Foreign Minister Karl Bildt instructed to figure out whether any new materials in the Wallenberg case appeared, spilling light on what happened to him. .

Earlier, researchers of the fate of Wallenberg said that the Soviet and then Russian intelligence agencies prevented the investigation of the circumstances of the disappearance in 1945 of the Swedish diplomat. The new investigation was headed by the representative of the Swedish Foreign Ministry Hans Magnusson, who in the 1990s participated in the work of the commission trying to find out the fate of Wallenberg.

Researchers of the Russian-Swedish commission in the Wallenberg case Vadim Birshtein and Suzanne Berger reported that they managed to find in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden evidence that Soviet and Russian intelligence interfered with the work of historians.

So, the memorandum of the Swedish embassy in Moscow dated 1991 contains a reference to information from the former head of the USSR Special Development Anatoly Prokopenko. Prokopenko argued that the KGB allegedly instructed him to terminate the search for documents for researchers working for the commission. According to the researchers, this means that the Swedish side knew about the attempts of the Russian special services to prevent the investigation and silently accepted the rules of the game.

"This means that when the second Russian -Swedish commission earned, the Swedish side understood that it would not be possible to get acquainted with many important materials," says Birshtein. The Russian specialist working in the United States, Birshtein told how he himself was often refused to access important documents in the framework of research or said that the materials were not available.

The fate of Raul Wallenberg is still one of the largest puzzles. The last time he was seen in Budapest in January 1945, where he went to a meeting with the commander of the leading offensive of the Soviet Army. He was arrested on suspicion of espionage on January 17, 1945, and nothing more reliably knew about him.

The first recognition of the death of Wallenberg - supposedly from a heart attack in a Moscow prison in July 1947 - the Soviet authorities made in 1957. Later there were rumors that Wallenberg was seen in the Stalinist camps.