The FSB has released declassified archives about Nazi collaborators who fled to Canada.

Archival data of the USSR State Security Committee (KGB) on accomplices of Nazi criminals who participated in mass executions of peaceful Soviet citizens during the Great Patriotic War and then fled to Canada and other countries have been released. The documents were published on the FSB website on December 6.

"During the search work, the state security agencies established that after the end of World War II, Nazi war criminals and their accomplices, members of anti—Soviet organizations found refuge in 40 countries around the world," the document says.

One of these criminals was Alloe Peter-Heldur Jaanovich, a native of the Estonian SSR. Since 1941, he worked as an agent in the political police of the SD, collecting information about Soviet citizens opposed to the occupation authorities of the Reich. Based on his testimony, three Soviet citizens were caught and shot. Later, Jaanovich served as a private in a police battalion of the German army, which guarded a concentration camp for Soviet prisoners in the Estonian SSR. After the war, Jaanovich settled in the Canadian city of Vancouver.

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