On 21 August, we mark the beginning of the occupation of Czechoslovakia, which the Communist Party also calls the entry of Allied troops. Troops entered Czechoslovakia on 20 August 1968. The operation was codenamed the […]
It is much easier to deny the past than to rectify it, wrote Titus Livius. The past can also be concealed or falsified. However, this is not the right way to “be open” as suggested […]
The speech which was given by prof. Vytautas Landsbergis on the 30th anniversary of the January 13, 1991 events (the Freedom Defenders’ Day) and the Freedom Prize award ceremony. The rise of long-enslaved nations and […]
On the eve of 13 January, the Seimas adopted the Resolution on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the Defenders of Freedom initiated by Emanuelis Zingeris, MP, Signatory to the Act of Independence. The Resolution […]
With the debate in the Committee on National Security and Defense on civil resistance and the involvement of responsible educational institutions in such education, I simply opened up the assignments for the national proficiency examination […]
In West Berlin, on Heinrich Dernburg Street, among other “memorial plaques” that commemorate the names of the victims of Nazism, there is a brass plate with several dates engraved. It is tucked away in the […]
To believe or not to believe in the power of a symbol is something that everyone decides for themselves. Some time ago, 50 to 70 years ago, those who the secretly embroidered the Tricolour on […]
Right before Christmas, some interesting and strange things have surfaced in news reports. Not everyone has been following what was being published on the internet sites, which is why it is worth elaborating a bit […]
The 20th century brought the world inconceivable suffering and the deaths of hundreds of millions in the name of twisted, totalitarian ideologies. The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of […]
On August 23 the Baltic States celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way human chain which stretched from Vilnius to Tallinn and on August 24 Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day. H. E. Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi, […]
The remains of Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubūnas, which were discovered in Vilnius’ Našlaičių Cemetery are important for all of Lithuania, however, the final partisan’s relatives responded the most sensitively. His sister, Janina Šyvokienė-Kraujelytė says she never gave […]
It wasn’t by chance that I spoke about my meeting with the daughter of Jonas Noreika – General Storm, Dalia Noreikaitė Kučėnienė, and the broad conversation that I had with her. I resolved to remember […]
Lithuania’s northern town of Radviliškis plans to rename a street named after a Soviet hero in late August, the Lietuvos Žinios daily writes. […]
Lithuania’s former political prisoners and deportees called on Russia during their convention on Saturday to let participants of the Mission Siberia project into the country. […]
Archeologists have found the remains of Lithuanian partisan Albinas Ivanauskas at the Orphans’ Cemetery in the Antakalnis area of Vilnius. They were found near the place were the remains of Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas were discovered in June, the LNK TV channel reports. […]
On behalf of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, his Foreign Policy Advisor Deividas Matulionis has expressed appreciation to Ambassador of Israel Amir Maimon for his gesture of solidarity and respect to Lithuanian freedom fight against the Soviet occupation, Prime Minister’s press office reported in a press release. […]
Russia condemned on Monday a decision by the local authority of the nothern Lithuanian district of Biržai to put up special explanatory signs next to monuments to Soviet soldiers to say that the inscriptions on these monuments do not correspond to historical truth. […]
Lithuania’s former MP Balys Gajauskas, dissident and 1990 Independence Act signatory, passed away at the age of 91 in early hours of Thursday after a disease, his family said. […]
Around three hundred people gathered in the Washington Square in Vilnius on Thursday evening to thank the United States on the 77th anniversary of the Sumner Welles Declaration that condemned the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. […]
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