 For a year he was intensively searched for by the Soviet counterintelligence.Finally he was betrayed by fellow fighter Jonas Kukauskas and killed in fall 1951.In 1950 Juozas Lukša was granted a title of "Hero of Lithuanian Fights for Freedom" ("Laisvės kovos karžygio garbės vardas"), awarded with the Freedom Fight Cross with Swords (1st class).