Why should we defend the Baltics?

Deterring Russian aggression and defending the Baltic states will be far easier and cheaper than liberating them. Defending the Baltic states and deterring Russian aggression will be far easier and cheaper than liberating them.

When did Russia invade the Baltic states?

June 1940
The occupation of the Baltic states involved the June 1940 invasion of the Red Army, and the subsequent military occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact that had been signed immediately before the outbreak of World …

When did the armed resistance ebbed out in Lithuania?

Only in 1953 the armed resistance ebbed out.” Lithuania’s WWII: Torn apart by two super powers. Many of the partisans were young men returning to Lithuania from the West after WWII to fight for their beloved home country.

What did we get to know about the Baltic uprising?

However, we got almost nothing to know about the many, many times bloodier uprising against the Soviet that was happening right outside our own front door, in the Baltic States, through nine long years from 1944 to 1953.

What happened to the partisan war in western Ukraine?

Only in Western Ukraine, there was fighting in the same scale as in Lithuania. underground bunkers as their hideouts, such as the one depicted here. The Baltic Partisan War came mostly to an end by May 1953, two months after Joseph Stalin died.

Why did the Lithuanian soldiers always save the last bullet?

It is said that the Lithuanian soldiers always saved the last bullet for themselves; they knew all too well that torture, a symbolic trial and execution by hanging, head shot or group execution awaited them if they were captured. The post war Guerrilla War in Lithuania is normally divided into three different phases: