Many Latvian national partisans persisted in the hope that Cold War hostilities between the West , which never formally recognized the Soviet occupation , and the Soviet Union might escalate to an armed conflict in which Latvia would be liberated . This never materialised , and according to Laar many of the surviving former '' Forest Brothers '' remained bitter that the West did not take on the Soviets militarily . ( See also Yalta Conference , Western betrayal ) As the conflict was relatively undocumented by the Soviet Union ( the Latvian fighters were never formally acknowledged as anything but " bandits and illegals " ) , some consider it and the Soviet-Latvian conflict as a whole to be an unknown or forgotten war
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Latvian partisans