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Nifalta and the Soviet Union
Jonas Nifalta and his partisans were surrounded by NKVD troops in the Konniskas forest. They fought for hours but before long they were coming down to the last of their ammunition. The only hope of avoiding a general massacre was to somehow break through the Soviet lines, he writes. He says torture was one element of a system designed to terrorize both the partisans and civilian population. Other methods included deportation of local guerrilla leaders or hanging of those suspected of links to resistance.