Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pana 15 June 1940, Soviet Union yakatora Lithuania, uye varwi, kufanana navamwe vose vemauto, vakarayirwa kusadzivisa. Aleksandras Barauskas, murwi wepfuti uye murindi womuganhu, akaurayiwa nevarwi veRed Army mangwanani-ngwanani aJune 15. Hurumende itsva yeSoviet People's Government yeLithuania yakabva yatora matanho okuparadza mubatanidzwa wacho. Mutungamiri waro, Colonel Pranas Saladžius, akadzingwa basa musi wa 19 June 1940, uye Chief of Defence division General Vincas Vitkauskas, uyo akanga achishanda nemaSoviet, akarayira vapfuri kuti vaise zvombo zvavo kumasoja musi wa 25 June 1940. Musi waJuly 13, 1940, murayiro weSoviet wokuparadza sangano racho wakapiwa. Mumwedzi yakatevera, varwi vakawanda vaiva nesimba zvikuru vakasungwa se"vavengi vevanhu" uye vakaendeswa kumisasa yeGulag yakasiyana-siyana. Muna June 1941, vaSoviet vakatanga kudzinga vanhu vakawanda
iyo yainanga "zvinhu zvinopesana neSoviet", kubatanidza vapfuri. Pakati pevakadzingwa vaive mukuru weLRU Colonel Pranas Saladžius, honorary commander wechikamu chevakadzi Emilija Putvinskienė, mukuru weUtena Regiment Lt. Col. Pranas Bronevičius, mukuru wechikamu chetsika Vincas Daudzvaras, nevamwe.