Vytautas Prabulis-Žaibas. Tardymų protokolai

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Vytautas Prabulis-Žaibas; Partizanai; Tardymų protokolai; Vytautas Prabulis-Žaibas; Partisans; Interrogation protocols.

ENThe article reads about the Lithuanian partisan Vytautas PrabulisŽaiba (and his relatives), who died in Šlynakiemis on December 15, 1949, and provides interrogation material related to his previous activities. In 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the Prabuliai family (Jonas and Vytautas) were engaged in the transfer of fugitives from the Soviet repressions across the border. On March 4, 1941, Jonas and Vytautas Prabuliai from Mockava and Vincas Anza from Mockai village tried to transfer the Lithuanian aircraft constructor Aviation General Antanas Gustaitis across the border. Half a kilometer away from the Šeštokai railway station, the sleigh was stopped by the Soviet border guards. Gustaitis was taken to Moscow, and the Prabuliai brothers and Anza were sent to Kaunas Prison. They were interrogated here for almost 4 months. The interrogation documents remained. They reveal what interrogation methods were employed by the Soviet security and stribai in order to break the troublesome Lithuanian people who got into the Bolshevik ‘disgrace’. The writer Justinas Sajauskas, the long-time head of the Marijampolė Tauras County Partisan and Exile Museum, helped to process the material of Vytautas Prabulis’s case and translated it into Lithuanian. In June, 1941, after the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, the Prabuliai brothers, like other prisoners, were released. In April, 1945, Vytautas Prabulis, in order to avoid arrest and repression, moved to Punskas region, where he stayed with Pauliukoniai in Vaičiuliškės. With the help of his hosts, he dug up several hiding places. He was one of those Lithuanian partisans operating on the Polish-Lithuanian border.After the ‘forest clearing’ operation, which was carried out in August, 1946, by the Polish Border Guard, he was hiding alone until his fate brought him together with Jurgis Krikščiūnas-Rimvydas, Head of the Communications and Information Division of the Dainava District Headquarters. Vytautas Prabulis became his adjutant. In the summer of 1949 they dug a bunker in Šlynakiemis and were there until the heroic death on December 15, 1949. [From the publication]