 Stasys Guiga (code name "Tarzanas") died in hiding in 1986.Many nationalist partisans persisted in the hope that Cold War hostilities between the West, which never formally recognized the Soviet occupation, and the Soviet Union might escalate to an armed conflict in which Lithuania would be liberated.This never materialized, many of the surviving former partisans remained bitter that the West did not take on the Soviets militarily.