Pietų Lietuvos partizanų pogrindiniai periodiniai leidiniai 1944–1953 metais
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Pietų Lietuva; Partizanai; Pogrindinė spauda; Southern Lithuania; Partisans; Underground press.
ENUnderground periodicals are publications that were issued secretely. These publications were of a political, ideological nature. They were illegal because they were published without the consent of the occupant authorities. In the Soviet state, the entire press was in the hands of the Communist Party, it was a tool of communist propaganda, and it was strictly controlled by the authorities. No nation had as many underground periodicals as the Lithuanian partisans had. 107 periodicals published by the Lithuanian partisans during the second Soviet period were counted. The number of the underground periodicals published by the partisans of Southern Lithuania is 25. Many underground periodicals have not survived at all, and many issues are often missing from the surviving. They did not survive because during the Soviet era, neither libraries, museums nor other institutions, and especially private individuals, had the right to collect them, and they were threatened with considerable penalties for disobedience. It was only after Lithuania regained its independence that the collection of underground periodicals began to be hastily collected (when only a few were left), and they began to be described. Underground publications is a powerful weapon. This was well understood not only by the occupants, but also by the freedom fighters who published periodicals, and multiplied them by a variety of means: typewriters, rotators, chapirographs, and occasionally in a handwritten form. Lithuanian partisans published periodicals in wet and cold bunkers, in airless premises, in the woods, on stumps, in lofts, and elsewhere, feeling the constant threat of death. The resistants opposed the occupation and national oppression. They fought for the political freedom of the occupied nation, for the independence of the state. [From the publication]
