Jurgis Jurgelis. About traitors

  "Jurgis Jurgelis, former head of the State Security Department (SSD)

   "Cursed! .. Unfortunately! .. The Daughter Betrayed! .." (Salomėja Nėris) Question: But what if the daughter did not betray, but the curse is needed? Do it yourself in this text. But before the text a little context.

 

    In the middle of November last year, the text of Andrius Užkalnis "Serving the Enemy is the Oldest Lithuanian Sport" appeared on DELFI. Not only the oldest, but also the favorite. It is said that even Vytautas the Great had fled to enemies to ask for help at least two or three times. Old times, who knows there. Everything could have been. 

 

And the historian A. Anušauskas also wrote about modern times. He wrote that post-war Lithuania was teeming with traitors. But their bread was unsweetened. The partisans imposed various sanctions on them. The harshest sanction was the bullet. It applied only to extremely malicious traitors, such as Communist Party or Communist Youth activists, collective farm chairmen, NKVD spies, and other complainants of various hair.

 

    The historian counted them. For example, in 1947, 16 such persons were liquidated in Estonia, 369 in Latvia, 959 in western Ukraine, and 1976 in Lithuania. How to explain this? Maybe our treacherous genetics are to blame, maybe such values?

 

    However, some empirical observations suggest adjustments to these numbers. We will give another example. One of the liquidation minutes left by the famous Aukštaitija partisan reads: “November 5 of this year, in the evening, in the village of Papiškiai, we liquidated the traitors of eight partisans (...), Gečis Pranas and his wife Gečienė Leokadija."All the neighbors have the clearest evidence of his betrayal, and everyone, according to the information received from the district who worked with him in the district (he was the district's accountant), guarantees that he was much more free to deal with the communists." (Language not corrected).

 

    It would turn out that Gečienė, who, by the way, was pregnant and was preparing to give birth, did not betray. It later became clear that Gečys was not a traitor either.

 

    So two people could be excluded from that large number of traitors. After a while, "Monster", renamed "Horror", liquidated the chairman of the district Lapušauskas, and at the same time his wife. They both drove to the market. "Horror" liquidated both together. Will you leave one widow with seven children? (Lapušauskas had six children and was expecting a seventh).

 

    During the last parliamentary term, a real scandal arose when a member of the Seimas spoke of the family of his friend Jurgis Lebrikas being killed in the post-war period (many Lebrikas were killed: parents, their two adult sons and the wife of one son). Anušauskas hurried to report that he would have information that no one had killed anyone, that a shooting had taken place between the partisans and Lebrikas. The latter were killed.

 

    One member of the Seimas said that she was stunned to hear the word "traitors". The reactions of some other members of the Seimas were also unexpected. But it soon turned out that Anušauskas had no information about the traitors' acts of Lebrikas. And no one has.

 

    So we could reduce that number by five more. By gradually reducing it in this way, we would probably notice that there were not an unrealistic number of traitors, only a lot of liquidations.

 

    Why did Estonians, Latvians and Ukrainians behave differently? After all, people were also forcibly driven to the collective farms (kolkhoz). There were also kolkhoz presidents and communists, communist youth, and some others. And here's the version: patriotism was more rational in Estonia, Latvia, and elsewhere. Our patriotism was hotter. Therefore, even the rumor that spread in the district caused a spark in the mind of "Monster" and shots rang out.

 

    And these days, the temperature of patriotism in us is probably so elevated. It is perhaps higher than the EU average. Therefore, it is possible to understand the Seimas, which "freezes" when it hears the word. But it does not frown on the death of men, on the fate of their children orphaned. During the whole thirty years of the restored Lithuania, neither the Seimas nor any state institution (for example, the Presidency, the Government, the Ministry of National Defense, etc.) has ever shown the initiative to remember, to honor those who have been recklessly liquidated.

 

    True, as far as Lebrikas is concerned, the descendants of the family were still remembered. It was asked whether the grandson of Lebrikas could hold senior positions in the civil service.

 

    So we cannot say that the topic of post-war traitors is exhausted. But that doesn’t mean we can live in the past. Lithuania is still surrounded by enemies. Maybe more of them today than ever before. And where are the traitors? Our patriotism makes sense when it struggles with traitors. If there are no traitors, there are no patriots. O  patriots do exist.

 

     P. S. We can assume that the methods of studying outcomes we have reviewed are unique. They allow you to make a spy without much time and effort. If there is a desire, both two and three. Theoretically, the maximum number of traitors would be equal to the country's population.

 

     As the latter recedes rapidly (losing about two hundred thousand people in the last decade), the number of potential traitors is declining hopefully. This gives hope that the betrayal bacillus will be eradicated over time. Or at least they will be very few.”