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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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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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Natural Killer Cells in Paediatric Soft Tissue Sarcomas: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Paediatric soft tissue sarcomas (pSTS) are a rare and heterogeneous group of malignant tumours arising in tissues of mesenchymal origin. The role of natural killer (NK) cells in pSTS remains poorly understood, with evidence fragmented across small preclinical studies and early‐phase clinical trials.
Raya Dean +7 more
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The March of the Ukrainian Rebels to the Baltic Countries
In 1950 but five years had passed since the last shots of the Second World War had echoed throughout Europe. For the Soviet Union the World War II ended not only in the victory against Germany, but also in the acquisition of a broad zone of influence in
Volodymyr Vjatrovič
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Determining Parental Factors for Clinical Trial Attrition in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Despite high enrollment rates on Children's Oncology Group (COG) protocols, attrition after initial consent is challenging, introducing bias and prolonging trial completion. While adult oncology literature has identified predictors of withdrawal, little is known about caregiver decision‐making for child participation in ...
Kimberly L. Stathas +3 more
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Soviet Occupation Actions to Demoralise and Break up Lithuanian Resistance in the Summer of 1945
In the summer of 1945, the Russian occupiers were not planning to change their tactics in suppressing military resistance in Lithuania. The most important means of suppression was, as before, the military force of the NKVD and NKGB.
Kęstutis Kasparas
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