Forest Brothers The Account Of An Antisoviet Lithuanian Freedom Fighter 19441948 Juozas Luka by Juozas Lukša B00JEE954K instant download after payment.

Lithuanian farmers, school teachers, university professors, university and high school students, and a small number of remaining non-commissioned officers and lower ranking officers from independent Lithuania's military, organized themselves into a partisan movement that at its peak was roughly 30,000 strong. Many of these same men and women had opposed the Nazis during World War II. Most of these partisan fighters had little or no formal military experience or training.

For half a century the Soviet Union kept this war a secret. Its participants were hunted down, tortured, and exiled to prison camps in Siberia. Its survivors learned to keep quiet. Of the three Baltic States, Lithuania fought the hardest and the longest. Nonetheless, they were forgotten by the outside world. As the vastly outnumbered and undersupplied Lithuanians continued to resist their Soviet occupiers for nearly a decade after World War II had ended, America and Western Europe moved on to reconstruct a peaceful and prosperous post-war Europe.

In February 1945, at the Yalta Conference American President Franklin D. Roosevelt "let it slip that the United States would not protest if the Soviet Union attempted to annex the three Baltic States."{1} After Yalta, the three Baltic States and much of Central Europe was left in Stalin's control.