Monika urged him to be patient, as her uncle tried to get him a meeting with someone from the SDECE. The world that her uncle operated in, one of back-channel French contacts, moved very slowly. And even after it began to move, it sputtered to a stop again because few seemed to be very interested in Lithuania, let alone the Lithuanian partisans. And those who were interested had their own reasons. The French, it turned out, were not all that different from the British. Wheels turned within wheels in France: the Communists had been important in the French underground, and they resented the concept that “resistance” could be attributed to anyone but them, or that the enemy could be anyone but the Nazis, as they called them here, to distinguish them from the Germans. It was confusing as well to the French that the crime of collaboration could be extended to those such as slayers, who worked for the Reds. Weren’t the Reds anti-fascists? If so, Lukas had to be an anti-anti-fascist, which made him a fascist.
