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.
- Date
- September 27, 1949
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Lithuanian Freedom Fight Movement (LLKS), Eastern Lithuania (King Mindaugas) region partisans
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Religion
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Joseph Stalin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (image of a Genocide Victims Museum item, via respublikosvertybes.lt), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 3.0 per the Commons file page (author credited as Bronius Krivickas)
Aukštaičių kova, Nr. 2, 27 Sept. 1949, LLKS Eastern Lithuania (King Mindaugas) region partisan journal (Genocide Victims Museum); Commons credits Bronius Krivickas; CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
AUKŠTAIČIŲ KOVA Nr. 2 /2[illegible]/ 1949.IX.27.
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.
