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Among the ranks of partisans there were several women who contributed to the resistance in several ways. Here Sofija Budėnaitė–codename Ramunė (Daisy) –receives a medal for bravery in April 1948. The medal is awarded by the commander of the military district Adolfas Ramanauskas—codename Vanagas (Hawk). The motivation for the award is read by Lionginas Balukevičius—codename Dzūkas (The man from Dzukija). These were, besides Juozas Lukša and some others, some of the most well known resistance leaders. Both of the men on the picture wrote accounts of their lives as partisans, which were published posthumously.

Photo and caption featured in Forest Brothers: The Account of an Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Freedom Fighter 1944-1948 by Juozas Lukša

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Estonians jailed for defacing monument on orders of Russian intelligence | News | ERR

Three Russian and Estonian citizens have been handed prison sentences after being found guilty of defacing a Lithuanian monument to an anti-

Capture, torture and death (1956–1957)

He was taken to the KGB prison in Vilnius (now the Museum of Genocide Victims) and tortured. On 12 October barely alive, he was transferred to a hospital, where doctors noted his many wounds – his eye was punctured 5 times, he was missing genitals, had a bruised stomach, etc. He was cut alive and then stitched. Scissors were actively used during his torture. This took place despite Nikita Khrushchev having abolished torture. Sentenced to death on 25 September 1957, Vanagas was executed on 29 November 1957.

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