Whether It's Better to Fight to the Bitter End or Not?

The last Estonian partisan was not killed until the late 70s and even though they lost their sacrifice was not in vain. Even after the Soviets had consolidated power over their countries the names of the forest brothers remained as a subterranean rallying cry for resistance against total submission to Soviet domination. It's a hard question that question of whether it's better to fight to the bitter end even with no real hope of victory. To this day Jews debate whether the suicides at Masada were an example of holy dedication or amoral extremism but there are no such questions here when you knew what lay in store for them if they lost.