Rabu, 19 Juli 2017

The Forest Brothers Against the Soviets

From 1944-53, Lithuanian partisans risked their lives to oppose repressive Soviet occupation. From the end of World War II through the early years of the Cold War, thousands of Lithuania’s sons and a few of its daughters disappeared into their homeland’s wooded countryside to use it as a hiding place and as a base from …

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