Lithuanians fighting against Communism 1941-1945
 

There were fighting a total of 25 lithuanian battalions against bolshevism

Found some nice picture assortment here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A5ZQ...eature=related

Letter in 10:45 quote:

"<Name>!

Though in outlandish clothes, but undearneath it, the heart of lithuanian flutters. :salute:

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North Front

1944 January 7-th"

Americans Fighting Against Communism 2009 - 2013 :O:

The British Fighting Against Overstatements 1776 - ????

I hope Americans' "fight against Communism" doesn't take the same form as the Lithuanians' fight. Those uniforms look suspiciously German for a good reason.

That said, it's hard to blame the Lithuanians, or any other Eastern Europeans too much for what happened in those dark days. They were faced with one of the worst choices of all time - Bolshevism or Nazism/Hitler or Stalin. Compared to that choice, us Yanks should be thankful that we had Obama vs. McCain.

Although I never took interest in the Lithuanians this seems like an interesting topic :)

Poor Lithuania, always having to fight against the majority.

I'm not saying it was/wasn't the case with Lith., but there is nothing wrong
with opposing the majority when you believe the majority are wrong.

Taxation without representation...

Oh not that tired old argument again :rotfl:

Another tragic case on the Eastern Front was the Warsaw Uprising. The Polish Resistance launched an uprising designed to wrest control of their nation's capital from the Germans before the Russians arrived. The Germans brutally crushed them in savage urban fighting while the 1st Belorussian front of the Red Army sat motionless only 15 miles away. Stalin refused to lift a finger to help them as their destruction suited his purposes. When the Russians did finally enter the city the NKVD began rounding up the Resistance survivors as ruthlessly as they did the Germans. Not much joy for those small nations stuck in the middle on the Eastern Front.

Rocks and hard places indeed.
Beware the enemy of your enemy.

A very good movie about the plight of Eastern Europeans during WWII (with a bit of Judaism thrown in for good measure): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Europa

That film appeals to me...looking for it now :up:

Yeah yeah security battalions killing jews.
But hey jews were responsibe for communism as well as capitalism in the 1000 year Reich so they must have been really really bad and warrented extermination.
Oh sorry you meant all the Lithuanin batalions that were not put in "police" units together with the Einsatzgruppen.
Sorry fella , how many battalions were not put in "police" units?
BTW it was 35 battalions not 25

:haha:

PD