The Resistance in Scurry County was headed by, of all people, a retired history teacher. Guy pretty much set up a replay of the Double Cross system, and he dangled a bunch of walk-ins, all allegedly mercenary in motivation. Sneaky SOB then kept the Komandantura and the chekisti busy chasing phantom Resistance cells. They never found any cell members, but they found lots of "supply caches" and "arms depots." The KGB took credit for the very low rate of bandits (due to their "aggressive recruiting of informers and equally aggressive anti-bandit patrols"), while the Resistance focused maintaining ratlines, maintaining a parallel government, and gathering intelligence.clancyphile wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 3:49 pmTexas certainly had one of the most effective resistance movements. How did they pull something like that trial off without being caught?Poohbah wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 1:44 am The best memoir by a circuit judge was The Majesty of the Law: Riding Circuit in Occupied Texas by Rebecca Malkus. She rode circuit in Scurry County from 1985 to 1988. The biggest thing she ever did was conduct a trial of a KGB officer accused of rape and murder--of a Soviet Komandantura clerk! She made sure that they found his body, and that there was a complete transcript of the trial, showing that he'd been vigorously defended by a competent attorney and had been afforded all elements of due process as required under the laws of Texas...including the appellate phase; another circuit judge reviewed the proceedings.
That move ended up gutting Soviet authority in Scurry County--even in the eyes of the military government. It showed them that they'd never be legitimate, no matter how many people they shot.
They lifted the rapist with a simple ruse. The KGB thought the military government had killed him, the military government figured the chekists had reassigned him, and the Resistance cheerfully sowed seeds of distrust in a garden of assholes.
