In Latvia and Estonia, the goal of resistance between 1944 and 1945 was initially simply to survive the Soviet onslaught, hiding in the forests and swamps while waiting for the new war to start when they would be able to participate in the liberation of their country. In 1945, as it became obvious that a war between the West and the USSR was not imminent, the ‘Forest Brothers’, as they called themselves, converted their efforts to active fighting against the Soviets. In Lithuania and the Ukraine, battles with the Red Army commenced as soon as it entered the territories controlled by the partisans. The arrival of the Red Army heralded a new wave of terror including mass arrests and forced conscription, leading more people to join the partisans. In Lithuania, smaller partisan detachments started to combine to form larger units early in 1944, as a result of which seven partisan regions (apygarda) were formed. This provided the partisans with material resources, printing equipment and medicine, as well as facilitating distribution of their publications. The activities of the partisans were regulated by the statutes of the former Lithuanian army. In resistance to the formation of a Soviet civil government in Lithuania, the partisans assaulted smaller towns, destroying government institutions, disarming punitive units, liberating prisoners and destroying call-up documents. Villages were under partisan control at night and in some locations even during the day. The partisans gathered in the forests in groups of a hundred or more and built well-fortified camps. Between 1944 and 1945, there were several bigger battles between the partisans and Soviet units, in which airborne reconnaissance and mortars were used against the partisans. The Soviet leaders gave the order to destroy the partisan movement in Lithuania ‘within a fortnight’, but the resistance continued.121
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