Editing History of Lithuania (section)

===Stalinist terror and resistance (1944–1953)===
{{Main|Soviet deportations from Lithuania|Lithuanian partisans}}
[[File:Lithuanian deportee house in Kolyma.jpeg|thumb|Lithuanian deportee house in [[Kolyma]] (1958).]]
The [[Soviet deportations from Lithuania]] between 1941 and 1952 resulted in the exile of thousands of families to [[forced settlements in the Soviet Union]], especially in [[Siberia]] and other remote parts of the country. Between 1944 and 1953, nearly 120,000 people (5% of the population) were deported,<ref name="Zagłada Żydów, piekło Litwinów"/> and thousands more became political prisoners. Many leading intellectual figures and most Catholic priests were among the deported; many returned to Lithuania after 1953. Approximately 20,000 [[Lithuanian partisans]] participated in unsuccessful warfare against the Soviet regime in the 1940s and early 1950s. Most were killed or deported to Siberian [[gulag]]s.<ref name="Snyder 95">Snyder (2003), p. 95</ref>{{efn|It was a sizable force in comparison with the similar number (20,000) of underground anti-communist fighters operating at that time in Poland. Poland was a country with an over eight times the population of Lithuania, but legal opposition (the [[Polish People's Party (1945–1949)|Polish People's Party]]) was primarily active there in the 1940s.<ref name="Dzień Żołnierzy Wyklętych. Cywilny opór czy III wojna? Rozmowa z dr hab. Rafałem Wnukiem">Paweł Wroński, ''Dzień Żołnierzy Wyklętych. Cywilny opór czy III wojna? Rozmowa z dr hab. Rafałem Wnukiem'' (The day of cursed soldiers. Civil resistance or World War III? Conversation with Professor [[Rafał Wnuk]]). [[Gazeta Wyborcza]] wyborcza.pl 01.03.2013</ref>}} During the years following the German surrender at the end of World War II in 1945, between 40 and 60 thousand civilians and combatants perished in the context of the anti-Soviet insurgency. Considerably more ethnic Lithuanians died after World War II than during it.<ref name="Zagłada Żydów, piekło Litwinów"/><ref>Robert van Voren. ''Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania''. Rodopi. 2011. p. 2.</ref>

Lithuanian armed resistance lasted until 1953. [[Adolfas Ramanauskas]] (code name 'Vanagas', translated to English: the [[hawk]]), the last official commander of the [[Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters]], was arrested in October 1956 and executed in November 1957.