Lithuania 1944 – 1953:
The longest and bloodiest
guerilla war in modern Europe

Tell a Lithuanian that his country was liberated and that peace after WWII was restored on the 9th of May 1945, as the Russians claim. Tell him that this May 2011 it is 66 years since the Soviet Union and the Western world defeated Hitler’s Nazi regime, and that Lithuania since then has been a free, happy country in line with what other European countries experienced after they were occupied in 1939 – 1940 and liberated in 1945.

Do not be surprised if you get an angry and annoyed look back. For while we in the Western world, in Russia and in other parts of the world joyfully could celebrate the liberation and the recovered freedom after the World War, Lithuania, the other two Baltic states, and Ukraine were forced to realize that one war had been replaced by a new, much bloodier and more protracted war, lasting from 1944 to at least 1953. What we in the west celebrated in May 1945 was by Lithuanians and the other occupied countries experienced only in 1990 –1991.

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VIDEO: Oh little falcon

This video features a song composed by Lithuanian partisans during their fights against the Soviet intruders (1944 – 1953).

Muzika ir dainos is CD “Uz Laisve, Tevyne ir Tave”- cia naudotos ne pelno tikslais.

Oh, little falcon, where are you coursing?
Maybe carrying some news home,
What is new, what did you hear?
In that beloved country?
Oh, you partisan, son of woe,
Why are you asking for such news?
Winds are stirring in your farm,
The entire country is in sorrow.
In your farm — uneven furrows,
Your home stands neglected,
And there far away, in between the birches
Are three new graves.
One grave — your mother’s,
Another grave — your father’s,
And the third sandy grave –
Is your youngest sister’s.