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Juozas Vitas (born on January 8, 1899 in Dzūnija, died in 1943 in Vilnius) - Lithuanian communist activist, Hero of the Soviet Union (1965). Curriculum vitae

He was born into a peasant family, he graduated from a rural school, he took part in the First World War. In 1919 he joined the Communist Party, in 1920 he was appointed to the Lithuanian army, while serving the service he led communist agitation in his regiment. He was sentenced to death by the Lithuanian authorities, but on the eve of the planned execution, the arrest was attacked by other communist soldiers who liberated Vitas. After his release, he fled to the RSFSR, in 1921 he came to Moscow, where he studied at the Communist University; later he also studied at the Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad, then he worked as an electrical engineer. Later he worked at the factory. Sverdlov in Dzerzhinsk. In 1940, after annexing Lithuania by the USSR, he became the chairman of the municipal executive committee in Vilnius, later deputy chairman of the Power Board of the People's Commissariat for Municipal Economy of the Lithuanian SSR. After the German attack on the USSR, he remained in Lithuania, where he founded the underground organization "Union of Liberation of Lithuania". In 1943 he established contact with the local ZPP branch, in May 1943 he organized the underground Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania in Vilnius and became its first secretary; he was also a co-founder of party municipal committees in Kaunas, Alytus and other cities. He also ran an illegal printing house and published three communist newspapers. June 19, 1943 he was arrested, then subjected to interrogation and killed by the Germans. On May 8, 1965, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR posthumously gave him the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin. His name was given to the street in Vilnius. Bibliography

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