Vladas Terleckas, the younger brother of Antanas, describes his life as a young student in a small country town when the full extent of the new party control took charge of all aspects of town life. School activities, textbooks, student dress, required membership in Young Pioneers, and the terrible public punishments of opponents of part control. He contrasts their view of the local collaborators as lowlifes with their views of the partizanai resisters as heroes.