Soviet resistance

Interview with Ukrainian Ambassador: the Baltic Way showed that you will winInterview with Ukrainian Ambassador: the Baltic Way showed that you will win
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Interview with Ukrainian Ambassador: the Baltic Way showed that you will win

On August 23 the Baltic States celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way human chain which stretched from Vilnius…

5 years ago
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Lithuanian prosecutors start to investigate alleged Holocaust perpetrators on list

Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said Thursday it would investigate a list of about 2,000 Lithuanians who may have taken part…

9 years ago
Posthumous honours for suspected Holocaust perpetrator under scrutinyPosthumous honours for suspected Holocaust perpetrator under scrutiny
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Posthumous honours for suspected Holocaust perpetrator under scrutiny

A posthumous award of military rank to a man suspected of involvement in the Holocaust has caught attention of the…

9 years ago
Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’
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Author explores Holocaust in Lithuania: ‘Our own boys used to go shooting people after school’

Author Rūta Vanagaitė recently presented a book, "Our Own", about the Holocaust in Lithuania. Although historians have been researching the…

9 years ago
Russia paying financial compensation? A fata morganaRussia paying financial compensation? A fata morgana
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Russia paying financial compensation? A fata morgana

The issue re-appeared rather unexpectedly. On 5 November, after a meeting in Riga, the Justice Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, and…

9 years ago
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Soviet killings of Lithuanian partisans not a genocide, ECHR rules

There is no basis for equating post-war Soviet persecution of partisans in Lithuania with genocide, the European Court of Human…

9 years ago
Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in HolocaustLithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in Holocaust
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Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighter stripped of state decoration due to involvement in Holocaust

After President Dalia Grybauskaitė changed a 2000 decree on state awards for Lithuania's post-war anti-Soviet resistance fighters, one partisan, Pranas…

9 years ago
Opinion: Information offensives aim at pillars of Lithuanian statehoodOpinion: Information offensives aim at pillars of Lithuanian statehood
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Opinion: Information offensives aim at pillars of Lithuanian statehood

City authorities recently removed four groups of Soviet-era statues from the Green Bridge in central Vilnius. Columnist Ramūnas Bogdanas argues…

9 years ago
Lithuanian court finds ex-KGB agent guilty of genocide in guerilla leader caseLithuanian court finds ex-KGB agent guilty of genocide in guerilla leader case
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Lithuanian court finds ex-KGB agent guilty of genocide in guerilla leader case

A Kaunas court on Thursday found former KGB officer Ylya Vorobyov guilty for complicity in the 1956 detention of former…

10 years ago
Former Soviet security officer sent to jail over 1956 operation on guerrilla leaderFormer Soviet security officer sent to jail over 1956 operation on guerrilla leader
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Former Soviet security officer sent to jail over 1956 operation on guerrilla leader

A Kaunas court on Thursday found former Soviet security officer Stanislovas Drelingas guilty of genocide and sentenced him to five…

10 years ago
Lithuanian court opens second case into murder of anti-Soviet resistance commanderLithuanian court opens second case into murder of anti-Soviet resistance commander
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Lithuanian court opens second case into murder of anti-Soviet resistance commander

Kaunas Regional Court on Tuesday opened one more case into the murder of Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. [...]

10 years ago
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Late Monsignor Alfonsas Svarinskas: Priesthood marked with pain and terror

Prominent Lithuanian clergyman, former dissident and political figure Monsignor Alfonsas Svarinskas passed away last week, aged 89. One of the…

11 years ago