Guerilla Warfare On The Amber Coast by K. V. Tauras

Author:K. V. Tauras [Tauras, K. V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, United States, Europe, General, Germany, Asia, Japan
ISBN: 9781786253262
Google: d7tvCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06T05:06:19+00:00

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POLITICAL FRAUD

Moscow made its first attempt in 1940 to disguise its aggression against Lithuania as a legal act. The next important move in this masquerade was the announcement of the “election” of the country to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1946. The mock election (see p. 21) was necessary for the Communist propaganda machine in its efforts to mislead world public opinion, which still associates the word “election” with legality.

The LFA opposed the mock elections to the Supreme Soviet because they were a parody of democratic suffrage and a falsification of the people’s will. The LFA underground press therefore launched an anti-election campaign to explain the political background of the situation. The population was urged to boycott the election proceedings. LFA units received instructions to prevent Communist activists from terrorizing the inhabitants during the “election campaign.” But their most extensive activity was reserved for the eve of the “election,” when freedom fighters had orders to:

(a) collect passports from the population, so that those whose passports had not been stamped because of failure to vote could excuse themselves by saying their passports had been seized;

(b) keep NKVD garrison buildings under constant fire, so that they would be less active the next day, because of exhaustion;

(c) cut telephone wires and destroy local traffic bridges so that on “election” day “electoral commissions” and Communist activists would find themselves isolated from the centers and would be unable to visit individual farms with voting boxes or otherwise to terrorize the inhabitants into voting.

Let us take a closer look at some typical election episodes. In district B., an LFA unit took up a convenient roadside position a week prior to the “elections.” Several freedom fighters disguised in Red Army uniforms and equipped with binoculars observed traffic on the road. Whenever they spotted an “election” truck or automobile covered with posters and slogans, they stopped it, disarmed those inside, and diverted it, passengers and all, from the road into the forest. During a four-hour period, seven cars with thirty-eight agitators and NKVD men were held up and diverted in this way. The freedom fighters then burned all the “election” propaganda and four of the cars. The Communist activists were executed, while three other cars and non-Communist NKVD men were set free to go their way.

Visiting Communist activists were expected at a pre-election meeting held in the town of K. They were accompanied by a dozen NKVD men. Three miles outside the town they were met by machine-gun crossfire. Their cars ignited, and only a few NKVD men managed to crawl to safety along roadside ditches. Communist activists were largely passive in that district for a long time thereafter.

On the eve of the “election,” the clatter of machine-guns and automatics, punctuated by muffled grenade explosions, was heard throughout all Lithuania. The entire country resembled a front line. The Soviet administration, aware of the moods governing the country, threw in all its available forces to make the “election” a success. The entire body of Communist activists was mobilized and an NKVD army, 60,000 strong, was put on a war footing.

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