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committee", and promised to provide the partisans with fraudulent documents for them to live "legally", and as such demanded their signatures with pictures, as well as ordered them to put their weapons in special warehouses, only to be used in certain situations. He also ordered the underground press machines to be sent to the "center", from which a unified partisan newspaper would be published. The newspaper, entitled
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498:(unity) propagated passive resistance rather than armed combat. Agent Gediminas also offered Misiūnas to travel abroad in the United Kingdom to study war strategy. This way the NKVD obtained lists of partisans, their liaisons and important locations. Pečiūras then invited Misiūnas to a meeting of partisan commanders in
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agent. Misiūnas wanted that the military district would be commanded by an army officer. Markulis recommended
Viktoras Pečiūras-Kapitonas Griežtas (agent Gediminas), who was made the official commander of the district on 16 July 1946. He posed himself as a representative of a non-existent "central
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Krivickaitė) and their seven-year old twins Kęstutis and
Rimgaudas were arrested on 5 January 1945. In prison, she gave birth to another son, Vytautas. She was released on 10 January while her three children were kept as hostages. NKVD hoped that she would persuade Misiūnas to surrender. She made
399:'s Vilnius district. Misiūnas' partisan group was reorganized into the 5th sector of LLA's Vilnius District. Misiūnas became a deputy of Kestenis who now commanded the partisan unit until he was killed on 13 April 1945. On 1 December 1945, the name of the unit was once again changed to
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held Misiūnas's three young children as hostages but released his wife in hopes that she would persuade him to surrender. She was killed in
February or March 1945. Misiūnas was arrested when he attended a meeting of partisan leaders (a trap organized by NKVD agents) in
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forces several times. Misiūnas was injured in August 1945. Under Misiūnas, voters voting in favor of the USSR in state-sponsored elections and then attempting to join the partisans were to be shot.
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into a family of a blacksmith. The family raised ten children, four sons and six daughters. The family did not own land or smithy and frequently changed their residences. He joined the
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in 1931. He served in a Hussar regiment in Kaunas and rose to the rank of viršila (equivalent to first sergeant).
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