Krizostomas Labanauskas (codename Justas) was a
Lithuanian anti-Soviet partisan and a commander of the
Kęstutis military district
Kęstutis military district (also Kęstutis partisans military district) is a military district of Lithuanian partisans which operated in 1946–1959 in the counties of Tauragė, Raseiniai, Jurbarkas, Šiauliai, Joniškis, partially - Kėdainiai an ...
from 1951 to 1952. Before becoming leader, he was the commander of the partisan Birutė unit. Little else is known about him; having lived during the final years of the partisan movement, in 1956 he voluntarily surrendered to the
MGB under the codename Kalinauskas, betraying some fellow partisans in the process.
He died in 2000 in
Švenčionėliai
Švenčionėliai () is a city in Švenčionys district municipality, Lithuania.
It is 10 km west of Švenčionys
Švenčionys (, known also by several alternative names) is a town located north of Vilnius in Lithuania. It is the capital ...
.
See also
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Anti-Soviet partisans
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Forest Brothers
The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an armed struggle which was waged by the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian partisans, called the Forest Brothers (also: the "Brothers of the Wood" and the "Forest Friars"; et, metsavennad, lv, mež ...
Further reading
* Povilas Gaidelis, ''Lietuvos kovos dėl laisvės. 1941–1953 m.,'' 2022.
* Vykintas Vaitkevičius, Aistė Petrauskienė, ''Lietuvos partizanų valstybė'', 2019,
References
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Lithuanian partisans