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title: Aukštaičių kova, Nr. 2, 27 September 1949 (Lithuanian partisan underground journal, cover)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aukstaiciu-kova-no2-partisan-1949/
description: 'The duplicated cover of a clandestine partisan journal: a masthead, issue number and date over a hand-drawn emblem of a double cross broken by a chain…'
section: Collection
---

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# Aukštaičių kova, Nr. 2, 27 September 1949 (Lithuanian partisan underground journal, cover)

The duplicated cover of a clandestine partisan journal: a masthead, issue number and date over a hand-drawn emblem of a double cross broken by a chain, framed by a crown of thorns, crossed swords and a rising sun. The tell is the borrowed religious and national imagery (cross, thorns, swords) that lends martyrdom and sanctity to the armed cause.

## Text on the object

Original (Lithuanian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
AUKŠTAIČIŲ KOVA
Nr. 2 /2[illegible]/
1949.IX.27.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
HIGHLANDERS' STRUGGLE (STRUGGLE OF THE AUKŠTAITIANS)
No. 2 /2[illegible]/
27 September 1949
```

Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 'Aukštaičiai' are the people of Aukštaitija, the highland region of eastern Lithuania. The cover is a low-resolution duplicated sheet; the second digit of the bracketed number is unclear. Only the cover is shown; the body text of the issue is not on the image.

[← FDJ march-past banners at the 2nd World Festival of Youth, Budapest](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fdj-banners-budapest-world-youth-festival-1949/) ["Jugend voran im Kampf um die Einheit Deutschlands": FDJ torchlight march, Berlin →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-fdj-torchlight-march-berlin-1949/)

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