Juozas Vitas
Juozas Vitas (real name Juozas Valūnas; 8 January 1899 – 1943) was a Lithuanian communist. In 1942–1943, he organized the anti-German resistance group, Union for the Liberation of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos išlaisvinimo sąjunga), and established contacts with Polish and Jewish underground. These activities were detected by the Gestapo and Vitas was executed. He was recognized as Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965. He was the seventh and last Lithuanian to receive Hero of the Soviet Union for anti-German resistance. Biography Vitas was born in the Dzūnija village, Alytus District, Russian Empire. During World War I, he was drafted to the Russian Imperial Army and became a member of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) in 1919. He returned to Lithuania and conducted counter-intelligence during the Lithuanian Wars of Independence. In March 1920, he was drafted to the Lithuanian Army and continued communist agitation among the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment (Lithuania), ...
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