Janka Filistovič Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Filistovič‘s trial began on 17 October 1953 during which he passionately  defended his mission and a vision of an independent non-Soviet Belarus:

Filistovič was sentenced to death and executed around 11 November 1953.

After the war, Filistovič moved to France. He studied history at the Sorbonne (France) and Leuven (Belgium) universities, published the magazine ” Maladość” (“Youth”) and was one of the leaders of a Belarusian youth organisation in France. In 1951 he became a member of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

In March 1951 he volunteered for a covert operation with the Western intelligence to be dropped off inside Soviet Belarus to establish a contact with the local anti-Soviet partisans and expand the local anti-Soviet resistance.

After three months of training at the Kaufberen base near Munich, Filistovič was parachuted by the US airforce in the Viliejka district on in September 1951.

To avoid deportation to Germany as an Ostarbeiter, Filistovič joined the Belarusian Auxiliary Police in 1943 but was not involved in any wartime atrocities.

Janka Filistovič (Belarusian: Янка (Іван Андрэевіч) Філістовіч; 14 January 1926 – approximately 11 November 1953) was an active participant in the Belarusian independence movement and a member of the underground anti-Soviet resistance in Belarus in the 1950s.