Editing Nachman Dushanski (section)

== Soviet security officer ==
Dushanski evacuated through Pskov to Leningrad. He was stationed in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow and was put on firewood duty.<nowiki> </nowiki>Between spring 1942 and summer 1943, he attended intensive NKVD training courses on identification of spies, recruitment, interrogation,<nowiki> </nowiki>and other areas in preparation for work behind the German lines. He became a junior lieutenant of the KGB in January 1943, captain by 1945, and lieutenant colonel in 1956.He was deployed in the Smolensk<nowiki> </nowiki>area to capture German officers and other collaborators. Dushanski and other agents would dress in German uniforms, cross the front line, and arrest German officers. After the Minsk Offensive, Dushanski returned to Lithuania where he was assigned to the duties of suppression of the Lithuanian partisans,<nowiki> </nowiki>the armed anti-Soviet guerrilla fighters. He was involved in liquidation of commands of the Tauras, Dainava, and Prisikelimas districts, murders of Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis and Juozas Luksa-Daumantas, and arrest of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas.He was also involved in apprehension of former Nazi collaborators, Holocaust perpetrators, and members of the Lithuanian ''Schutzmannschaft''. In 1964 he graduated from Law Faculty of Vilnius University. He retired from the Soviet security agencies in 1971.