Gathering calls for 'de-Sovietization' of Lithuania
Oct 01, 1998
Rokas M. Tracevskis
VILNIUS - Just in case anyone was thinking of writing them off, former prisoners of Soviet concentration camps, deportees to Siberia and anti-Soviet partisans demonstrated they are still a powerful political force at a gathering near the Lithuanian Parliament.Roughly 4,000 mostly elderly Lithuanians who suffered under the Soviet regime filled Independence Square Sept. 22 and demanded "final and complete de-Sovietization."Translated, this means banning former Communist Party higher-ups and KGB em ...
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