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Punitive Operations Carried out by Lithuanian Partisans in Alytus County in 1944–1952
To compare with guerrilla wars in the 20th century in Europe, participants of Lithuanian partisan movement after the WW II were particularly involved in fighting collaborationism; they were struggling to overcome challenges related to support showed by ...
Rimantas Zagreckas
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The Backbone: The Role of the Armed Forces in the Resistance Movement
Russia’s aggressive actions in the vicinity of the borders of the Baltic states have stirred the discussion on the Comprehensive defense concept.
Mareks Runts
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About one more Organ of the Stalinist Period – Troikas and Petiorkas
Informal formations of party and chekist organs – troykas, chetvyortkas, petyorkas – were formed on the instructions of the Lithuanian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania (LKP(b)); they began their more active operations ...
Juozas Starkauskas
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Resistance Movement in Estonia in 1955–1985
After the Soviet Union occupied and annexed Estonia in June 1940, the Estonian people immediately began to resist foreign rule, which lasted until Estonia regained its independence in August 1991.
Viktor Niitsoo
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KGB Frontier-Guards in Lithuania After the War
In its attempts to crush our partisans, and the Lithuanian people in general, the border guards played a dual role: they blocked the border, thereby effectively preventing the Lithuanian resistance forces from receiving support from abroad, and at the ...
Juozas Starkauskas
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Editor: Dustin A. Lewis; Contributors: Sonia Chakrabarty, Minqian Lucy Chen, Edi Ebiefung, Zach Grouev, Rachael Hanna, Simon Gregory Jerome, Charles Orta, Will Ossoff, Vera Piovesan, Sam Rebo, Lilianna (Anna) Rembar, Ricardo Cruzat Reyes, Juan Rivera ...
Lewis, Dustin
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Soviet Home Army, Its Strategy and Tactics in 1944–1953
There are several reasons for a closer examination of the functioning of the various types of NKVD–MVD–MGB troops in Lithuania. One of them is this: in 1950s and 1970s, historians and publicists, inspired by the Communist Party and the KGB, began to ...
Juozas Starkauskas
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Latvian SSR MGB Special Troops and Special Agents Against National Armed Units in 1946–1953
To suppress the Latvian national resistance movement, the Soviet state security organs had to take special measures. It has been established that the state security organs were able to crush the national resistance movement most effectively not by ...
Ritvars Jansons
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There are very few documentary sources on the activities of the KGB of the Latvian SSR during the period when the KGB organs of the Baltic republics were playing operative games with the intelligence services of Sweden and Great Britain.
Janis Vasilevskis
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