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Resistance organization of the Lithuanian partisans
- Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters or Movement for the Struggle for Lithuanian Freedom (Lithuanian: Lietuvos laisvės kovos sąjūdis or LLKS) was a resistance organization of the Lithuanian partisans, waging a guerrilla war against the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.
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Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters or Movement for the Struggle for Lithuanian Freedom ( Lithuanian: Lietuvos laisvės kovos sąjūdis or LLKS) was a resistance organization of the Lithuanian partisans, waging a guerrilla war against the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II.
Lithuanian partisans ( Lithuanian: Lietuvos partizanai) were partisans who waged guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953. Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet rule in Estonia, Latvia and Poland.
- 1 July 1944-May 1953
- Lithuania
Jan 12, 2021 · The Lithuanians had been at the vanguard in the movement for freedom in the Soviet Union. They had elected a non-communist government in free elections, had declared their national independence from Soviet rule, and strongly affirmed their intention of reversing a half-century of socialist central planning through privatization and free market ...
Sep 6, 1991 · Soviet government officials deported some 320,000 Lithuanians to the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1951. The Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters (ULFF) was established by Lithuanian partisans on February 10, 1949. The Lithuanian insurgency against Soviet occupation was largely suppressed by Soviet forces by the end of May 1953.
Adolfas Ramanauskas ("The Hawk"), commander of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters Among the three countries, the resistance was best organized in Lithuania, where guerrilla units controlled whole regions of the countryside until 1949.
Aug 11, 2022 · On July 1, 2018, the remains of Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas (1918–1957), code name Vanagas, one of the main leaders of the resistance against the Soviets, were located at the Našlaičiai (Orphans) Cemetery in the Antakalnis eldership of Vilnius.
Lithuanian Freedom Fighters (LFF) fought for almost a decade (1944-1953) against the Soviets who occupied their country after World War II. This research focuses on LFF tactics that enabled them to oppose greatly superior Soviet forces for an extended period of time and on the factors that resulted in eventual defeat of LFF armed resistance.
