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.
The
Government
supported
this
approach
.
They
argued
that
the
targeting
of
the
partisans
as
“
bandits
”
or
“
bourgeois
nationalists
”
or
simply
“
nationalists
”
,
and
of
their
supporters
,
masked
the
more
fundamental
objective
of
the
destruction
of
a
national
and/or
ethnic
group
.
In
particular
,
they
maintained
that
by
eliminating
the
important
Lithuanian
element
which
the
partisans
represented
,
the
USSR
facilitated
the
sovietisation
of
Lithuania
and
the
elimination
of
Lithuania
as
the
nation
it
had
been
,
which
,
in
the
eyes
of
the
Soviet
authorities
,
was
an
“
untrustworthy
nation
”
(
see
paragraphs
59
and
139
of
the
present
judgment
)
.
They
also
submitted
that
the
USSR
’s
overall
aim
was
to
deal
a
crippling
blow
to
the
most
active
political
and
social
groups
and
,
thereby
,
to
the
demography
and
strength
of
the
nation
itself
(
see
paragraphs
131
-
32
,
135
and
139
)
.
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