Forest Brothers: The Account of an Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Freedom Fighter 1944-1948 by Juozas Lukša

Author:Juozas Lukša [Lukša, Juozas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2014-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

In the Market Square

We and our guests had succeeded in getting rid of the Russians for a while. For some time things went well for Skirmantas and his men too. They joined forces with the group headed by Kardas and were making their way towards headquarters by slipping past the Soviet encirclement. However, living like that, constantly on the alert, had exhausted them. Not only were they unable to rest during the day, they had to stay awake for the better part of the night on alert.

As a means to subdue the resistance, the Soviets for some years dumped the bodies of killed partisans on the square in the nearest town. This was done in part to create fear among the population, but also to identify the bodies by perceiving how by-passers reacted when looking at the corpses. If somebody showed remorse, they were interrogated as to whether they knew the identity of the dead. The pictures are taken by the Soviet security, as a mean of identifying the dead. No written instructions, however, to use this mean are available from archives. On the picture there are three dead partisans from the Vytis militarydistrict, with their weapons dumped on top of the bodies. The three are: Vytautas Kadžys—codename Šešiapūdis (Six pounder); Antanas Valikonis—codename Grietinėlė (Cream); and Jonas Kalvanaitis—codename Pažistamas (Acquaintance).

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