Aleksandras Gudaitis-Guzevičius

Aleksandras Gudaitis-Guzevičius (7 April 1908 – 18 February 1969) was a Lithuanian Soviet writer, statesman and NKVD officer.

In 1921 he graduated from high school and moved with his family to Lithuania, where he studied at a gymnasium until 1925.

In June 1940, after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Gudaitis was appointed vice minister of the interior.

After the Red Army re-took Lithuania in summer 1944, Gudaitis returned as chief of NKVD and worked to suppress anti-Soviet resistance.

[2] From 1945 to 1947, he was the chairman of the Committee for Cultural and Educational Institutions under the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR.