Career
From 1953 to 1956, Algirdas Petrusevičius was second-in-command in the Kaunas underground organization "Geležinis vilkas" (Iron Wolf). On Lithuania"s independence day, February 16, 1956, he raised the Lithuanian flag in the Kaunas city hall square. In the subsequent gun battle, he was arrested, sentenced and imprisoned in Siberia.
He twice attempted escape, was wounded and lost his arm.
He returned to Lithuania in 1968. From 1990 to 1993 he led the newly independent Lithuania"s Defense Department weapons arsenal "Vytis".
He invented pistol-machine guns Vytis suitable for guerilla war, as well as hand grenades, and along with his colleagues, land mines. In 1996, he was elected chairman of the Union of Volunteer Founders of Lithuania"s Army.
In 2007, he was sentenced to 4 years of detention for illegal use of weapons after political provocation in the style of Russian secret services: using this case conservative party was dicredited twice - before municipality elections in 2007 and parliament election 2008.
Lithuania"s supreme court voided the sentence. Afterwards, his trial was begun anew.