Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers

The Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers, or simply the Extradition of the Balts (Swedish: baltutlämningen), was a controversial political event that took place in January 1946, in the aftermath of World War II when Sweden, a neutral country during the war, extradited 146 Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian soldiers, who had been drafted by Germany during the war and had been fighting against the Soviet invasion of the Baltic states, to the Soviet Union. Many of them were subsequently imprisoned, and five were sentenced to death by the Soviet government, with three executions carried out and two sentences commuted to hard labour.