In September 1945, a unit of Latvian national partisans, led by Roberts Dāvids Timmermanis and Kārlis Dankers, carried out an operation in the vicinity of Lubāna. One of the partisan groups occupied the Osupe dairy, where Dankers addressed the workers and local farmers with the following words: “Listen to our Latvian partisans shoot a check! Why do you bring milk to the Bolsheviks? Soon the English forces will help us get rid of the Bolsheviks and we will live well, so we will need dairy products for our free Latvia! ” Danker’s statement reflects the widespread hope among the people of Latvia at the end of World War II and in the first post-war years that the Western Allies would not allow the USSR to occupy the Baltics and come to our aid.
Although a very small but certain basis for these expectations was in May 1945 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the British army to draw up a plan of attack to expel Soviet forces from occupied Europe. However, the plan remained only on paper as an idea.
In April 1945, World War II came to an end in Europe. The Western Allies had already liberated France, the Benelux countries and fought in western Germany, while the Red Army had full control over Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia territories.
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