Icikas Meskupas-Adomas

Lithuanian Komsomol and Communist Party in interwar Lithuania. He was elected to the People's Seimas and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. He became the second secretary of the party in February 1941. For his communist activities, he was arrested and imprisoned several times by Lithuania and once by Nazi Germany. During World War II, he joined Soviet partisans

University of Kaunas studying to become a math teacher. After the coup of December 1926, many communists were arrested. Meskupas became a member of the central committee of Kaunas city and a secretary of Kaunas county Komsomol.^[1]

Capital, Volume I.^[1]

Seventh World Congress of the Comintern as an advisory delegate. At the same time, he represented Lithuania at a plenum session of the International Red Aid (instead of Feiga Zaraitė who could not attend). Later, in September–October 1935, he was a delegate to the Sixth Congress of the Young Communist International.^[1]

Comintern were terminated when Zigmas Angarietis, their contact person, was executed during the Great Purge. Antanas Sniečkus, the first secretary of the Communist Party, spent much of 1938–1939 in hiding from both the Lithuanian police and the Soviet NKVD and refused invitations to appear in Moscow.^[2] In December 1939, Meskupas was sent to reestablish these contacts and report on their activities for the past few years. Comintern found Lithuanian efforts to be satisfactory and according to the general party line.^[1]

soviet socialist republic and applying for the membership in the Soviet Union.^[1] He was a member of the delegation sent to Moscow to present the resolution to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. In January 1941, he was one of the 35 Lithuanian delegates elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. In February, he became the second secretary of the Communist Party of the Lithuanian SSR.^[1]

Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Meskupas, along with many other communists, evacuated to Russia. In Moscow, he formed a 15-member operative group that prepared for operations deep behind the enemy line.^[1] Almost all the men were politically active in the Communist Party or the Komsomol of Lithuania before the German invasion. At the time, the communists intended to reestablish the party in Lithuania – they prioritized political work and agitation over partisan warfare.^[3] The group was split into two sub-groups: Meskupas' sub-group was to be active in northern Lithuania and Juozas Daškauskas' sub-group in southeastern Lithuania. Meskupas was eager to depart, even promising to walk the distance, but various setbacks (Battle of Moscow, airplane malfunction, lukewarm reception by the NKVD) delayed his departure to 7 March 1942. Daškauskas' sub-group of six men departed on 17 March.^[3]

Rokiškis District. Two men were killed in a shootout on landing, two others were captured and executed on the spot.^[3] On 12 March, the remaining six men reached the environs of Nemunėlio Radviliškis and asked a local forester for food and directions. The forester later alerted the Lithuanian police which sent seven policemen and four civilians to investigate. Meskupas' group was easy to track as the snow had not yet melted. All six men were killed in the ensuing brief shootout near Smailiai village.^[1] Daškauskas' sub-group did not fare better: all men, except for Vytautas Bieliauskas who went into deep hiding, were killed on 11–12 April. The Soviets did not know the fate of these men until they captured archives of Lithuanian police at the end of the war.^[3]

Lithuania's declaration of independence in March 1990 and was transferred to the Grūtas Park.^[4]