Leninist Young Communist League of Lithuania

[1] During the interwar years, the Lithuanian Komsomol agitated for communist ideas and attempted to work with or through various other organizations.

[2] When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, some 2,200 members of the Lithuanian Komsomol were evacuated to Russia where many of them joined the 16th Rifle Division.

[6] In July 1958, on the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol, three members of the Lithuanian Komsomol were posthumously recognized as the Heroes of the Soviet Union[7] – Juozas Aleksonis [lt], Hubertas Borisa [lt], and Alfonsas Čeponis [ru], a Soviet partisan killed by the Gestapo, who participated in the murder of Elena Spirgevičiūtė, a Lithuanian student later recognized as a Servant of God.

Lithuanian Komsomol built 26 small hydroelectric plants in rural areas and 46 large husbandry farms.

The Lithuanian Komsomol was also active in cultural life organizing youth festivals, establishing new traditions (such as harvest festival or civil baptism), gathering memoirs of participants in World War II, organizing additional political education.

[1] The Lithuanian Komsomol organized "days of friendship" with youth of Finland (1979), Madagascar (1981), Poland (1982), and the German Democratic Republic (1983).