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Head on the dies
The judge of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow Irina Afanasyeva refused to satisfy the lawsuit against the FSB of the niece of the Swedish diplomat Raul Vallenberg with a demand to provide information about his fate after the arrest in 1945. This is reported by Interfax.
The FSB insisted that there is already access to some documents about the fate of Wallenberg. The rest cannot be published due to the fact that they contain information about other people, representatives of the special services said. The judge rejected a number of defense petitions. Afanasyeva decided to satisfy the claims in full.
The lawsuit of Wallenberg, who died in prison in the USSR, was filed in July . The appeal to the court was supported by the RWI-70 research initiative. The Wallenberg family achieves access to the originals and obscene copies of documents. Until now, Russia has given the relatives of the deceased only incomplete and censorship of the record.
“This case is not only the opportunity to restore the memory of an outstanding person, but also a strong argument in the struggle for the opening of the FSB archives and other departments,” commented the lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who represents the interests of the plaintiffs. Pavlov.
During the Second World War, Wallenberg was the first secretary of the Embassy of Sweden in Budapest. He organized the issuance of Swedish passports by Hungarian Jews, and also influenced the preservation of the Budapest ghetto. With his actions, the diplomat saved the lives of about 100 thousand people. In Israel, he was recognized as the righteous of the peoples of the world.
In January 1945, Wallenberg went to a meeting with the commander of the advancing Soviet army. On the 17th day of the same month, the Soviets arrested a diplomat on suspicion of espionage. There is no reliable information about the future fate of Wallenberg.
In 1957, the Soviets said that the diplomat in July 1947 died of heart disease in the MGB prison. At the same time, certificates appeared according to which Wallenberg was seen in Soviet camps after July 1947.
Meanwhile, in 2016, the constant diaries of Ivan Serov, the chairman of the KGB in 1954-1958, were published. As stated in the book, the head of the MGB Viktor Abakumov, after arrest, stated that Wallenberg in prison was killed on the direct order of Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov.
After the release of Serov’s diaries, the Wallenberg's relatives requested from the Russian authorities the protocols of Abakumov’s interrogations.
In January 2014, the family of the deceased personally addressed Vladimir Putin . The letter noted that the head of the Russian state is able to "put an end to this long test."