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Both
during
the
court
proceedings
in
Lithuania
and
in
his
submissions
to
this
Court
,
the
applicant
submitted
that
the
partisan
brothers
,
J.A.
and
A.A.
,
had
been
Nazi
collaborators
under
German
occupation
and
had
ceased
being
partisans
once
the
Union
of
the
Soviet
Socialist
Republics
(
USSR
)
had
re
-
established
its
grip
on
Lithuania
.
We
observe
that
the
domestic
courts
came
to
a
clear
finding
on
this
argument
,
having
carefully
considered
all
of
the
submissions
.
The
Court
of
Appeal
gave
thorough
consideration
to
the
applicant
’s
allegations
.
That
court
also
had
regard
to
the
historical
background
,
the
special
methods
used
by
the
resistance
movement
at
the
relevant
time
,
and
to
the
archive
documents
indicating
that
the
MGB
’s
(
Ministry
of
State
Security
)
orders
were
to
spread
misinformation
about
the
brothers
,
J.A.
and
A.A.
,
in
order
to
compromise
their
integrity
or
to
prevent
them
joining
other
partisans
.
Furthermore
,
one
of
the
partisan
brothers
was
charged
by
the
Soviet
authorities
with
counter
-
revolutionary
crime
under
Article
58
1a
of
the
Criminal
Code
of
the
Russian
Soviet
Federative
Socialist
Republic
(
“
the
RSFSR
”
–
see
paragraphs
37
and
71
of
the
present
judgment
)
.
Following
its
thorough
analysis
,
the
Court
of
Appeal
dismissed
the
applicant
’s
allegations
as
unfounded
(
see
paragraph
37
)
.
That
conclusion
was
fully
endorsed
by
the
Supreme
Court
(
see
paragraph
39
)
.
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