Kabile National Partisan Group
II WW2, III National Partizans, IV Soviet Occupation
A group of national partisans, the core of which consisted of former soldiers of the 19th Latvian Arms SS Grenadier Division.
As of January 1946, the commander of the group was Senior Lieutenant Ēvalds Pakulis under whose leadership the Kurzeme Latvian National Partisan Organisation was later established.
Ēvalds Pakulis was betrayed and arrested in October 1946. Some of the group members joined other groups of Kurzeme national partisans.
More information sources
Latvian National Partisan Battles - National Encyclopedia (enciklopedija.lv)
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National Partisans battle site near the Apūznieki home
On 1 January 1946, one of the biggest battles between the national partisans and the Cheka, or Soviet occupation State Security Committee, took place between Kabila and Renda near the "Apūznieki" houses. The partisans, among whom was the commander of the group, Fricis Kārkliņš, went after hay on the horses of the forest brigades. He left Ēvalds Pakulis as commander. The scouts reported that a Cheka unit was approaching the dugouts. Pakulis sent a partisan detachment - 25 well-armed men - to meet them. The bullets of the enemy wiped out the lives of three men - Kārlis Kristolds, Emītis Šmits and Ādolfs Kūrējs - but about 50 men fell on the Cheka side. Two of the fallen men are buried in the forest where these events once took place, and a memorial to them has been created.
Today, new bunkers are being discovered in the forests, which once sheltered almost 20 000 people who did not support the Soviet occupation and were uncooperative, or who hid in the forests for other reasons, such as fear for their lives, safety, etc.
