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    Guerilla Warfare On The Amber Coast
    Guerilla Warfare On The Amber Coast
    Guerilla Warfare On The Amber Coast
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    Guerilla Warfare On The Amber Coast

    By K. V. Tauras

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    The historical narrative which unfolds in the following pages is almost completely unknown to Western readers.

    Guerilla Warfare on the Amber Coast is an authentic, factual history of Lithuanian resistance against Soviet and Nazi oppressors between 1940-1952. This report is based on first-person accounts supplied by people who lived in Lithuania and who were able to reach the West; on statements by defected Soviet officials and military personnel, on articles of the Lithuanian underground press; and on items which have appeared openly in official Communist releases. For the most part, the report concentrates on Lithuanian guerilla operations against the Soviet colonial administration in Lithuania between 1944 and 1952.

    Most of the first-hand experiences in this narrative were brought to the West by Juozas Luksa, a special emissary from the Lithuanian Freedom Army to Lithuanian institutions in the free world. As a freedom fighter he had used the aliases of Skrajunas, J. Daumantas, and Miškinis. In 1950 he returned to Soviet-occupied Lithuania to rejoin the LFA. According to Soviet sources, the NKVD captured and executed him in about October, 1951.

    This narrative is published for the record and in the belief that it may serve a useful purpose at this particular juncture in world affairs. Interested readers will find extensive documentation and first-hand accounts of guerilla operations of the Lithuanian Freedom Army in the publications listed at the end of this report.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerdun Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781786253262
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      Guerilla Warfare On The Amber Coast - K. V. Tauras

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      Text originally published in 1962 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2015, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      GUERILLA WARFARE ON THE AMBER COAST

      by

      K. V. TAURAS

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 79

      AUTHOR’S PREFACE 82

      INTRODUCTION 83

      I. LITHUANIA BEFORE WORLD WAR II 86

      LITHUANIA THROUGH THE AGES 86

      INDEPENDENCE REGAINED 87

      RELATIONS BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND USSR 88

      II. LITHUANIA-VICTIM OF THE NAZI-SOVIET CONSPIRACY 89

      A PERIOD OF THREATS AND PROVOCATIONS 89

      USSR ULTIMATUM AND INVASION 89

      AGGRESSION MASQUERADING AS A LEGAL ACT 90

      III. LITHUANIA RESISTS SOVIET AGGRESSION 92

      THE PROTESTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES 92

      LITHUANIAN PEOPLE’S RESISTANCE 93

      INDEPENDENCE RESTORED 94

      IV. LITHUANIA RESISTS INTEGRATION INTO HITLER’S EMPIRE 96

      GENERALBEZIRK LITAUEN 96

      A NATION GOES UNDERGROUND 96

      NEITHER VICTORY NOR DEFEAT 98

      V. LITHUANIA FREEDOM ARMY (LFA) AGAINST SOVIET POWER 100

      WAR BREAKS OUT ON THE AMBER COAST 100

      THE LITHUANIAN FREEDOM ARMY 100

      THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE LFA 101

      TRAINING OF LFA CADRES 101

      ARMAMENTS AND SUPPLIES 102

      CAMPS AND SHELTERS 103

      LIAISON 104

      THE ROLE OF THE UNDERGROUND PRESS 105

      WOMEN IN THE LFA 106

      VI. THE TARGETS OF THE LITHUANIAN FREEDOM ARMY 108

      GENERAL ATTITUDE OF THE LFA 108

      LFA AGAINST THE NKVD 108

      NO MERCY FOR THE COMMUNIST ACTIVISTS 109

      THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POLITICAL FRAUD 111

      LFA AND THE MASS DEPORTATIONS 112

      FREEING OF PRISONERS 113

      ILLEGAL DRAFT INTO THE RED ARMY 114

      LFA AGAINST SOVIET COLONISTS 115

      LFA RESISTS THE ANTI-KULAK MEASURES 116

      LFA FIGHTS AGAINST COMMUNIST ROBBERIES 118

      LFA AGAINST MOONSHINERS 118

      VII. SOVIET MEASURES TO ANNIHILATE THE LFA 120

      SUSLOV—THE KREMLIN’S EMISSARY TO PACIFY LITHUANIA 120

      CONFESSIONS OF A COMMANDER OF THE NKVD FORCES AGAINST THE LFA 120

      EXTERMINATORS AGAINST THE LFA 121

      NKVD PROVOCATEURS AS FREEDOM FIGHTERS 122

      THE AMNESTIES 123

      NKVD ONSLAUGHT ON THE LFA 124

      REGULAR SOVIET ARMY TROOPS AND LIGHT ARTILLERY AND PLANES IN THESE UNDERTAKINGS 124

      DESECRATION OF DEAD FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND THEIR GRAVES 126

      VIII. THE LITHUANIAN FREEDOM ARMY AND THE WEST 128

      LIAISON WITH THE WEST 128

      LFA FAITH IN THE WEST 129

      IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ATOMIC ULTIMATUM 129

      IX. ENDURING RESISTANCE 132

      DEMOBILIZATION—NOT SURRENDER 132

      RESISTANCE BY PEACEFUL MEANS 133

      X. THE EXAMPLE OF LITHUANIAN RESISTANCE 136

      CHRONOLOGY 137

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 137

      BIBLIOGRAPHY 139

      AUTHOR’S PREFACE

      The historical narrative which unfolds in the following pages is almost completely unknown to Western readers.

      Guerilla Warfare on the Amber Coast is an authentic, factual history of Lithuanian resistance against Soviet and Nazi oppressors between 1940-1952. This report is based on first-person accounts supplied by people who lived in Lithuania and who were able to reach the West; on statements by defected Soviet officials and military personnel, on articles of the Lithuanian underground press; and on items which have appeared openly in official Communist releases. For the most part, the report concentrates on Lithuanian guerilla operations against the Soviet colonial administration in Lithuania between 1944 and 1952.

      Most of the first-hand experiences in this narrative were brought to the West by Juozas Luksa, a special emissary from the Lithuanian Freedom Army to Lithuanian institutions in the free world. As a freedom fighter he had used the aliases of Skrajunas, J. Daumantas, and Miškinis. In 1950 he returned to Soviet-occupied Lithuania to rejoin the LFA. According to Soviet sources, the NKVD captured and executed him in about October, 1951.

      This narrative is published for the record and in the belief that it may serve a useful purpose at this particular juncture in world affairs. Interested readers will find extensive documentation and first-hand accounts of guerilla operations of the Lithuanian Freedom Army in the publications listed at the end of this report.

      K. V. TAURAS

      New York City

      I hold it a noble task to rescue from oblivion those who deserve to be eternally remembered.

      —PLINY THE YOUNGER

      INTRODUCTION

      Although most of us have never visited Lithuania, the Amber Coast of the title, we are by no means unfamiliar with the tragic tale of the small nation, imbued with traditions as deep as the roots of its people, taking up arms against a gigantic invader. Perhaps most real to us of all these events in recent times is the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which was played out on the world’s stage to a world-wide audience and became one of freedom’s most historic acts of faith.

      This was an experience indelibly engraved upon the entire free world. Of the struggle in Lithuania, we knew much less, and yet the memory of Hungary’s few tragic days of freedom should help us in some measure to comprehend the sacrifice, the courage and the indomitable will of the Lithuanians whose story is told in the pages that follow.

      In the past decade, too, we have become familiar with Soviet wars of national liberation. We have seen Soviet tanks as they approached to liberate Budapest. We have seen Cuba and the Cuban people as they have been liberated by Fidel Castro. We have now in Europe and in our own country many refugees who have fled in ragged terror from the glories of Soviet liberation. There is reflected in the faces of these exiles, many of them Lithuanian, a frustration and tragic loss which dwarfs even the most generous compassion extended to them by those living freely in the West. This book tells of some of these people who, risking their lives and everything else they had, determined that in Lithuania, at least, the spark of their nation would be kept alive.

      It is not our business here to review the history of Lithuania. The history of this northern Baltic nation, now absorbed into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is covered adequately enough for our purposes in the opening chapters of this book. Just as the Baltic Sea casts up pieces of amber on her shores when the wind whips the waves to fury, so, too, history throws upon this small nation the crises that ravage her hemisphere.

      Since the Eleventh Century, Lithuania has been embroiled in the conflicts raging across Europe. In our own century alone she has been the victim of treachery which resulted in invasion by Germany from the west and usurpation by Russia from the east. Despite decades of cruel domination, however, the spirit of this nation has not broken. Quite the contrary, it has steadfastly persevered without even the spotlight of history to encourage it.

      The story of the Lithuanian Freedom Army (LFA) fighting with inferior weapons but superior will against the brutal NKVD forces, daring to print and circulate newspapers and posters, destroying records of patriots, inciting the people to boycott mock elections, protecting the property of deported citizens, raiding Soviet supplies, rescuing many of those doomed to mass deportation—in short, people dedicated to the will to resist tyranny—has much to teach us in the West.

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