LITHUANIAN MORALE, ATTITUDES, AND DEPORTATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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ora b'' a t1 c the hope for War
Tbbe g(;nerrl imorale of the people in Lithuania re-mains high0 Hatred of
:1 e :=ssi .ass or, to be pore exact, of the Bolshevists and of everything
`hat -1.s Cc:::munist, is i tense0 The Gc:j irtn- sts are hated by the farmers
r r,~ r,rd.irt,=ry workers ever nor e than by other people. Even the people not
mate al: y in want hate the regi.yne because of the constant sense of fear.
,prieg ccrnes9 everyori prepares his little bundle to be ready for
^c. inr dtsillusionedj,
A71- l*e people hop for is ware In 3,5146 and 1.9147 they were expecting it
'r.ontslI by month and telling each other,. "A little .more patience, and it.
?wi: all he over" In later years, they have expected it each spring.
mans 1_i.berat-don arid would brlng them a new 1ife.0 and it is felt that
everirone would prefer to take the risk of dying in the war rather than
Continuing to live under present conditions: Yet, much as they hope for
and expect war they are now growing tired of talking about it and be-
Under these circumstances, it
may seem remarkable that there are not marry- suicides among the Lithua-
t t r.w , in factp gaite the contrary is true Seeing with one's own eyes
hoes people, perish Riving, in constant dan:?er of losing one as life,, always
unier a sense of fear,, one values ortte''s life much more than in normal
td?i.mr:es, and seeks to preserve one's life by every possible means, not to
-offyt ?r. end to ift:.
Th sin topic of conversation between friends is always the dowwntall of
'lots:' visor r'very Lithuanian is convinced that 5olshev_? sm must perish,
hu;. he has learned by bitter experience that,, in order to keep out of
prisor and to surviv-e,, he must pretend to be convent with the present
re r; -,c This pretence is widespread. In the last six years the people
have ?_earnad how to keep) their mout3is shut, never to say what they think,,,
sae ~e to discuss Politics with anybody, particularly anyone who is not a
olr:se tdl absolutely reliable i r tend., One xor. d of criticis,n against, the
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may bring a penalt'r of fiife 3rears6 imurisoruu~ o_~
ll.r They s "In our coon for one word only
y'ea's, The Com-
monists are regarded as nothing but criminals because of all their past
and present deedsp 'and because of the untold suffering they have caused 50X1-HUM
the nation. Everyone is certain that war must come
tl. Should war break out, there is little doubt that at least ono-third of the
Lithuanians would go to the forests and join the partisans.. In rural areas
particularly, the peasants would try to avoid mobilization by every posaim
ble means and those who were mobilized would try to desert later
There is also. little doubt that, if war should break 50X1-HUM
out now, many innocent people would suffer9 as many individuals would take
the opportunity to settle private accounts and to seek personal revenge:
It might be possible to prevent this by using the right propaganda before=-
hand in order to influence the people It must be explained to the people
now that everyone who is a member of the Communist Youth Organization is
not necessarily bad, that anyone who joins such organizations is not alto-
gether rotten already, that therefore individual action against these per-
sons is not to be tolerated, and that these youths will be accepted back
into the national communityn Such explanation-would prevent the people from
looking upon the Communist Youths as traitors. The youths themselves would
become stronger in their national feelings and less eager to support the 50X1-HUM
Commznist regime now or in the futures they would even be rea tooppose it
7? There are many Russians living in Kaunas, possibly up to one-third of the
population, but there are no Russian settlers on the land round about.
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Thwi . h ..>,her offioia' a and the q0V:Ldt A rn y officers farm the privileged
rli.st. The lower orders occasionally show antipathy to the regimes par-
ticularly when under the influence of drink. In fact, when the Soviet
aoTdiers were going back home after the war, they openly sang a song
about "going ham to stay and sweeping the kolkhos away", but apparently
noi,hing happened. Lithuanians believe that Hitler lost the war because
of his inhuman treatment of the Russians
{',huaaian Repatriates
Lithuanians come via Orodno1. where they are very carefully
scs?eened0 Some fail to reach Lithuania; many are engaged to work for the
PMOD. Once they return to Lithuania, they can never go back to work abroad.
Deportations
AC-- Thc, mass deportations took place during the spring of 190 and 19I 83
These in 1948 were particularly heavy, They went on for a whole week,, and
pscple were deported day and night. In 1947, the people did not take food
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