Krauyalis, Antanas

He studied at the gymnasium of the town of Alunta ( Utyansky uyezd , Alunta volost ), which he completed after the war , after the restoration of Soviet power in Lithuania. In 1946-1947 Kraujalis acted as a partisan liaison, had a gun. However, due to constant harassment, offers to become an agent and to issue partisans, he could no longer stay at home and in the fall of 1948 he went into the woods.

He took the nickname Pabaisos (Pabaisos, "Scary"), was a member of the squad "Liepas" (Liepos, "Flames") of Vytautas County under the leadership of Mykolas Urbonas. In 1949 and 1950, as a representative of eastern Aukstaitija, he went to meet with Dzukian partisans to establish contacts.
In 1950, Krauyalis joined the “Lütas” (“Lion”) detachment of Henrikas Ruškulas in the Zheruči district, operating in the areas of Utena , Moletai and Anykščiai . Later he became a member of the district headquarters and took the nickname Siaubūnas ("Monster"). The year 1952 turned out to be tragic - many of the squad members were killed, the squad leader was captured. In 1954, Krauyalis - Siaubunas was left alone.

He lived in the village of Papiškės, Utena district, in a residential building of his brother-in-law Antanas Pinkevičus, having equipped a cache under the stove. On March 17, 1965 , during an operation led by KGB Major General Nachmanas Dušanskis, Kraujalis was shot dead in this house, before he destroyed the documents ^{[ specify ]} . His body was sent to Utena. The act of identification was signed by the KGB junior lieutenant Marionis Misukonis. Where the remains were subsequently hidden, is still not known. However, in 2019. the remains of A. Krajialis were discovered and identified at Vilnius Cemetery Nashlaichu ^[1]

Family

A. Krauyalis had six sisters (two of them were partisan liaisons). Regarding Krauyalis, all members of his family were interrogated and harassed. His parents and sisters were exiled twice.

In 1955 he married Janina Snukiškytė, the son of Antanas was born. Ioannina was arrested and served a prison term , at which time her son grew up in an orphanage . After returning from prison, the right to custody of her son was restored in court.

• On June 13, 1992 , at the initiative of the Utena branch of the Union of Political Prisoners and Emigrants, a memorial stone with the inscription V. Giedraičio was solemnly opened and consecrated near the house where A. Kraujalis was killed.
• December 17, 1997 - assigned the legal status of a military volunteer (posthumous).
• May 22, 1998 - awarded the Great Order of the Cross of Witis III degree.
• June 10, 1998 - received the rank of senior lieutenant .
• Since 2006, Utena has hosted an international youth baseball tournament in memory of A. Krauyalis.

In a criminal case instituted against A. Krauyalis in 1964 in the KGB of the USSR , there were charges of robbery and murder of 11 people killed by him or with his participation. Some of these killings are not in doubt: for example, on November 5, 1949, A. Krauyalis and M. Urbonas, in the village of Papiskes in the Moleti district , suspecting that the rebel aides and Leokadia Geciasy had given partisan asylum to the MGB officers, killed Gecias in the presence of their minor children . Also, in other episodes, an 8-year-old girl, other civilians.

These and other accusations of A. Krauyalis became widespread in the Lithuanian media in an article by Wanda Zaborskaite, Aloizas Sakalas and Jurgis Jurgialo, after the murder case (in which genocide is supposed) was brought to court in November 2009 by the Panevezys district prosecutor’s office. Kraujelis in respect of four of the former Lithuanian police and KGB, who participated in the operation to arrest Kraujelis: former head of the KGB department of Utena Tikhomirov, Marionisu Misyukonisu (first Minister of the Interior after the restoration of independence ) scho two residents of Lithuania.

The very case of the killing of a resistor was launched in 1998. As a result of the investigation, prosecutors identified 10 people (six of the accused are no longer alive) who, as officials of the Soviet law enforcement agencies fighting against banditry , “carried out genocide during an active armed attack contributed to the death of the partisan. " This charge, under existing laws, provides for imprisonment of 5 to 20 years or life imprisonment .
M. Misiukonis himself claims that A. Krauyalis shot himself , before this accidentally ^[2] killing the owner of the house where he was hiding, and wounding two policemen. Before his death, negotiations were held with him about surrender. ^[3]

Lithuanian historians do not recognize the killing of civilians by Krauyalis, and cites his arguments that Soviet repressive structures attributed to Krauyalis the crimes of others and, even, the NKVD isst. Invited to begin a re-examination of the activities and struggles of A. Krauyalis-Siaubunas. ^[2]

The Controversies were thoroughly investigated and evaluated by the Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of the Residents of Lithuania (CIGRJ), which conducted a thorough investigation of archival and other data and concluded that there was no evidence that A. Kraujalis was killing civilians. ^[four]

• Baltic annexation to the USSR
• The restoration of independence of Lithuania