Forest Brothers, 1945: The Culmination Of The Lithuanian Partisan Movement

(Text originally published in 2009 under the same title.)Thesis: Although the resistance effort maintained its strength ideologically, theLithuanian partisan movement never recovered from the culminating point in 1945because of a shortfall in resources, a lack of external support, and the inability ofresistance leadership to adapt rapidly enough against a comprehensive Sovietassimilation campaign.