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   AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 15:59:03 JST AJ Sadauskas

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   @mekkaokereke @professorhank The guerilla resistance against the Russian occupation continued into the 1960s. Around 50,000 were killed.

   "In Lithuania, all told the Soviets killed about 22,000 partisans while admitting to have lost about 13,000 soldiers of their own. Another 13,000 Lithuanians were killed as suspected collaborators, while hundreds of thousands of people across eastern Europe were deported to Siberia, many of them dying in exile."

   https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/anti-soviet-partisans-eastern-europe

   Then there's the '70. The Prague Spring and the Hungarian Uprising are still widely remembered.

   What's often forgotten is that similar uprisings took place against the Russian occupation in 1972 in Lithuania.

   In that year, a young man named Romas Kalanta ended his life by setting himself on fire in a public square in Kaunas in 1972: https://www.lrs.lt/pls/inter/w5_show?p_r=8524&p_k=2

   In the following days there were mass protests in defiance of Soviet Russian authorities that were suppressed by force: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_unrest_in_Lithuania

   In the years that followed, 13 people either set themselves on fire like Kalanta or attempted to do so, including Antanas Kalinauskas in 1976, and there were other riots and mass protests.

   Some of these uprisings were reported on in the West, albeit not their full scale.

   And something else happened in 1972...

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