Anton Furs, One Of Leaders Of The Anti-Stalin Organization, Died At 95

In August 2020, he marched in the center of Pastavy with a white-red-white flag.

Anton Furs, one of the organizers of the "Union of Belarusian Patriots" and a Gulag prisoner, died at 95. This was reported in social networks by his son.

As zerkalo.io writes, Anton Furs was born in Miory district in 1927.

After the liberation of Belarus, Anton became one of the organizers of the Union of Belarusian Patriots - an illegal organization, which operated in the territory of Hlubokaye and Pastavy districts.

Furs was the secretary of the Hlubokaye group. The UBP members used the Belarusian language and the Belarusian national symbols: the coat of arms "Pahonia" and the white-red-white flag. In 1946, the members of the Union swore an oath of allegiance to the ideals of independent Belarus.

In 1947, the Union was betrayed by a provocateur from the Soviet secret services. Furs was sentenced to 25 years of camps. While in the Gulag (near Karaganda), he took part in a rebellion of the camp prisoners.

In 1955 he was released. He returned to Belarus and married Alesia Umpirovich, who was also a member of the UBP. But then they left to work in Kazakhstan (Karaganda again), as they could not find it in Belarus.

They returned home in the 1980s, when Furs retired. In the early nineties he was rehabilitated for lack of corpus delicti. In August 2020, he came out to the center of Pastavy with a white-red-white flag.

The farewell for Anton Furs will take place at the Pastavy cemetery today, October 20, at about 2 p.m.