Partizaninis ginkluotas pasipriešinimas ir jo slopinimas Skapiškio valsčiuje 1944-1953 metais

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Skapiškis; Pokaris; Antisovietinis pasipriešinimas; Partizaninis judėjimas; Skapiškis; After-war period; Anti-Soviet resistance; Partisans movement.

ENThere are similarities and differences between armed resistance activities of partisans that took place in various regions of Lithuania in 1944-1953. Still, irrespective of several regional peculiarities, three main periods of the partisan warfare may be distinguished as characteristic of all Lithuania: 1944-1946 - period of spontaneous fighting, 1946-1948 - a period of organized fighting and 1949-1953 - the end of partisan warfare. Therefore, if you look closely at armed resistance of partisans and tactics they used in the rural district of Skapiškis, you will see a reduced image of all armed activities against occupants across Lithuania. Like everywhere in Lithuania, in Skapiškis rural district, first platoons featuring against great number of partisans were formed spontaneously. The partisans here used to apply the tactics of attacking the towns. Therefore, on November the 7th 1944, the town of Skapiškis, the center of the rural district itself, was assaulted. Like everywhere in Lithuania, in this rural district as well, the very first battles of the partisans brought huge losses - the forces of NKVD attacked numerous platoons of partisans and frequently destroyed them immediately. The young people from Skapiškis land boycotted mobilization to the Red Army. After the call for legalization appeared, a lot of fighters left forests and hid their relationship with partisans. The partisans used to hinder the occupant's authorities from organizing the local elections.During the second part of fighting, in 1946-1948, the issues of uniting the partisans' units and transition to organized fighting became the focus of attention of partisan commanders. At the time, the county of Kupiškis was established and Skapiškis rural district became a part of this county. On May 1st 1947, Algimantas Military District was established, and all partisans of Kupiškis land became subordinate to Šarūnas corps of that Military District. The last period of fighting stood out from those above by completing the formation of centralized structures of partisans as well as by their destruction. Refined combinations of agencies, activity of agents, treacheries, destruction of headquarters and military structures and greatly reduced numbers of partisans were the main causes of defeat of both Skapiškis land partisans and those operating all over Lithuania. It has been estimated that during entre period of partisan wafer (1944-1953), in Skapiškis rural district, 40 partisans, their liaisons and supporters lost their lives. [From the publication]