Lietuvos partizanų ryšiai su Vakarais per Suvalkų kraštą ir Lenkiją 1945-1950 m. : vietinis epizodas: Vinco Makausko atvejis

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Ginkluotas antisovietinis pasipriešinimas Lietuvoje; Lenkija (Lenkijos karalystė. Kingdom of Poland. Poland); Lietuvos partizanai; Lietuvos partizanų ryšiai su Vakarais 1945–1950 m.; Partizanai; Pasipriešinimas; Ryšiai; Sovietinė okupacija; Suvalkai; Suvalkija; Suvalkų regionas; Vincas Makauskas; Armed anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania; Connections of the Lithuanian partisans with West 1945–1950; Lithuania; Partisans; Relations; Resistance; Soviet occupation; Suvalkai; Suvalkai region; Suvalkija; Vincas Makauskas.

ENThe aim of the article is to present the forms and organizational structures of the resistance movement in Lithuania as well as its methods of communication with the West after the Second World War. The illegal information channels of Lithuanian partisans went through the Polish-Lithuanian border to Gdynia and far to the West. The Lithuanian residents of the Seinai and Suvalkai region helped to maintain the contacts. They transmitted the information, gave shelter to partisans, were guides to Gdynia, and helped to get necessary documents. The partisans were tracked down by the Soviet secret police agency (MGB) as well as by the law enforcement bodies of Communist Poland. The government infiltrated the resistance movement. The captured members of the resistance movement were tortured and some of them agreed to cooperate with the secret police. The author describes the case of Vincas Makauskas from Kampuočiai, Punskas district, which illustrates those difficult choices people had to make. [From the publication]