Watching Mykolas Burokevicius and Juozas Jermalavicius in a modern Vilnius courtroom call themselves citizens of the U.S.S.R. and repeat tired old slogans about world revolution would be quite humorous were it not for the blood on their hands.But the truth is that in 1991, these two ringleaders intended to plunge a newly-independent Lithuania back into dictatorship. They invited a foreign army into the capital city and watched as it proceeded to attack crowds of civilians, killing 14 and injuring 700 more.This is one of the worst forms of treason, and the Vilnius court that sentenced these ...
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