Antanas Merkys was the last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania,serving from November 1939 to June 1940. When the Soviet Union presented an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding that it accept a Soviet garrison,President Antanas Smetona fled the country leaving Merkys as acting president. Merkys ostensibly cooperated with the Soviets,and illegally took over the presidency in his own right. After three days,Merkys handed power to Justas Paleckis,who formed the People's Government of Lithuania. When Merkys attempted to flee the country,he was captured and deported to the interior of Russia,where he died in 1955.
Justas Paleckis was a Lithuanian author,journalist and politician. He was nominal acting president of Lithuania after the Soviet invasion while Lithuania was still ostensibly independent,in office from 17 June to 3 August 1940. He then remained as the nominal head of state of the Lithuanian SSR until 1967.
Romas Kalanta was a 19-year-old Lithuanian high school student known for his public self-immolation protesting Soviet regime in Lithuania. Kalanta's death provoked the largest post-war riots in Lithuania and inspired similar self-immolations. In 1972,13 more people committed suicide by self-immolation.
Antanas Sniečkus was a Lithuanian communist politician who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania from 15 August 1940 to 22 January 1974.
During World War II,Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union (1940–1941),Nazi Germany (1941–1944),and the Soviet Union again in 1944. Resistance during this period took many forms. Significant parts of the resistance were formed by Polish and Soviet forces,some of which fought with Lithuanian collaborators. This article presents a summary of the organizations,persons and actions involved. Lithuania was defacto independent from June 24,1941 until June 30,1941 when Nazi Germany took full control of the area.
Antanas Sutkus is a Lithuanian photographer.
Jonas Pleškys was a Soviet Navy barge captain who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States in April 1961. As a captain of a barge,he directed his vessel to Gotland,Sweden,where he asked for political asylum. The crew and the barge were returned to the Soviet Union. His defection served as an inspiration for Tom Clancy's book The Hunt for Red October.
The 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état was a military coup d'état in Lithuania that resulted in the replacement of the democratically elected government with a Nationalist regime led by Antanas Smetona. The coup took place on 17 December 1926 and was largely organized by the military;Smetona's role remains the subject of debate. The coup brought the Lithuanian Nationalist Union,the most conservative party at the time,to power. Previously it had been a fairly new and insignificant nationalistic party. By 1926,its membership reached about 2,000 and it had won only three seats in the parliamentary elections. The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party,the largest party in the Seimas at the time,collaborated with the military and provided constitutional legitimacy to the coup,but accepted no major posts in the new government and withdrew in May 1927. After the military handed power over to the civilian government,it ceased playing a direct role in political life.
Kazys Skučas was a Lithuanian politician and General of the Lithuanian Army. Skučas was the last Minister of the Interior of independent Lithuania. He was a target of anti-Lithuanian Soviet propaganda in the days leading to the 1940 Soviet ultimatum and occupation of Lithuania. Right after the Red Army invaded Lithuania on 15 June 1940,Skučas was directed to leave the country by the then-President Antanas Smetona but was arrested at the border several days later by the then acting Lithuanian President Antanas Merkys and handed over to the Russians,transported to Moscow,and executed in 1941.
Benjaminas Jakševičius was a Lithuanian sculptor and partisan. Together with his brother Vincentas and nephews Silvanas and Adomas,he contributed to religious art by building sacred statues and altars,mainly in Panevėžys,Švėkšna and various other parts of Lithuania. He also built several sculptures,predominantly religious ones,in Troškūnai,Kavarskas,Burbiškis,Upytė,Raguva and Pasvalys.
MarcelėKubiliūtė,was a Lithuanian public figure,active in press,education and military areas. She is the only Lithuanian woman awarded all major Lithuanian orders.
Antanas is a Lithuanian masculine given name derived from Antonius that is equivalent to Anthony in Lithuania. It may refer to:
Mečislovas Gedvilas was a Lithuanian Communist politician who collaborated with occupying Soviet forces. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Lithuanian SSR from 1940 to 1956. Rivalry between him and Antanas Sniečkus,the first secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party,led to his demotion to Minister of Education (1957–1973).
Adolfas Ramanauskas,code name Vanagas,was a prominent Lithuanian partisan and one of the leaders of the Lithuanian resistance. Ramanauskas was working as a teacher under the Nazi administration when Lithuania was re-occupied by the Soviet Union following the Nazi occupation in 1944–45. He joined the anti-Soviet resistance,advancing from a platoon commander to the chairman of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters. From 1952 he lived in hiding with fake papers. Betrayed by a classmate,he was arrested,tortured,and eventually executed by the KGB;he was the last known partisan commander to be captured.
Antanas Paškevičius –Poška was a prominent Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist,as well as an active member of the Esperanto movement in Lithuania. He is best known for his journey to India in 1929–36. In India,he studied Sanskrit and received bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Bombay and wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Calcutta on the Shina-speaking people but was unable to defend it. He interacted with India's intellectual elite and participated in anthropological expeditions. He met with Rabindranath Tagore and translated some of his works into Lithuanian. Poška returned to Lithuania in 1936 and worked as a journalist. He was recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations for hiding three Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. After the Soviet takeover in 1945,he refused to destroy books deemed unacceptable to the Soviet regime and was imprisoned in a Gulag. Unable to return to Lithuania,Poška later worked at several museums in Central Asia. He was allowed to return to Lithuania in 1959 and worked as a lecturer and journalist and continued his anthropological studies,but his past as a political prisoner prevented him from taking a more prominent position. By age 60,he had visited 75 countries and 120 nations. Poška was a prolific writer contributing articles to Lithuanian and foreign press. His bibliography,published in 2006,has 3,756 entries,but his main work,the eight-volume Nuo Baltijos iki Bengalijos on his experiences in India,was published only in 2002–12,a decade after his death.
Karys is a Lithuanian-language military magazine published since 1919. It is a magazine about the Lithuanian Army and is geared towards the soldiers and the general public. During the interwar period (1919–1940) it was published weekly in Kaunas by the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania and the General Staff of Lithuania. During World War II,it was a magazine of the Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions. During the Soviet period (1950–1990),it was published monthly by Lithuanian veterans in New York. After the restoration of independence in 1990,it is once again published monthly by the Ministry of Defence. The circulation was 4,000 copies in 1920,33,000 copies in 1940,1,650 copies in 1983,22,000 copies in 1991,3,000 copies in 2005.
Lithuania–Mexico relations are the bilateral relations between Lithuania and Mexico. Both nations are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Neither country has a resident ambassador.
Zabieliškis is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality,in Kaunas County,in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census,the village had a population of 20 people. It is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Kėdainiai city center,next to the Kėdainiai Industrial Zone,by the Nesekėrivulet and some ponds. There are relics of the former Zabieliškis manor. A dump site of "Lifosa" fertilizer factory phosphogypsum waste and a former site of Kėdainiai landfill is located in Zabieliškis.
Mikas Rėklaitis was a Lithuanian division general. He was Chief of Supply of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
Vladas Juozas Rėklaitis was a Lithuanian colonel,lecturer of the Higher Officers' Courses,Burgomaster of Ukmergė.
