and summary execution while their relatives faced deportation to Siberia (cf. quotation). Reprisals against anti-Soviet farms and villages were harsh. The NKVD units, named People's Defense Platoons (known by the Lithuanians as pl. stribai, from the – destroyers, i.e., the destruction battalions), used shock tactics such as displaying executed partisans' corpses in village courtyards to discourage further resistance. The report of a commission formed at a KGB prison a few days after the 15 October 1956, arrest of Adolfas Ramanauskas ("Vanagas"), chief commander of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters, noted the following: Juozas Lukša was among those who managed to escape to the West; he wrote his memoirs in Paris - Fighters for Freedom. Lithuanian Partisans Versus the U.S.S.R. and was killed after returning to Lithuania in 1951. Pranas Končius (code name Adomas) was the last Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter, killed in action by Soviet forces on 6 July 1965 (some sources indicate he shot himself in order to avoid capture on 13 July). He was awarded the Cross of Vytis posthumously in 2000. Benediktas Mikulis, one of the last known partisans to remain in the forest, emerged in 1971. He was arrested in the 1980s and spent several years in prison. Notable partisan groups and battles Albanian Partisans Kurdish Partisans Armenian irregular units Armia Krajowa Armia Ludowa Afghan Mujahideen Bataliony Chłopskie Bushwhackers Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II Caucasian Front (Chechen War) Tibetan Defenders of the Faith Volunteer Army Cursed soldiers Czechoslovak resistance Danish resistance movement Dutch Resistance Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Forest Brothers Francs-Tireurs et Partisans Free French French Resistance Greek Resistance Green Guard Italian resistance movement Irish Republican Brotherhood Jewish partisans Jewish Combat Organization Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion Kuva-yi Milliye Lithuanian partisans Mosby's Rangers National Armed Forces Norwegian resistance movement Operation Anthropoid Partisan Ranger Act Peace Companies Pomeranian Griffin Polish resistance movement in World War II Romanian anti-communist resistance movement Slovak National Uprising Soviet partisans Spanish Maquis Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian resistance during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Viet Cong Yugoslav Partisans See also Fifth column Asymmetric warfare Guerilla warfare Improvised explosive device Unconventional warfare References External links Irregular military