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Zita Šličytė, a well-known lawyer and politician from Klaipėda, was surprised to leave the monument to Soviet government collaborator Petras Cvirka in the center of the capital due to endless discussions. The lawyer refers to the interwar Lithuanian law, which clearly defines the punishment that would have awaited this and other similar actors if the independence of the state had been restored immediately after the Second World War.
Worse than killers
According to the lawyer, if the Soviets had lost the war and independence had been restored in Lithuania, all the actors in Soviet Lithuania at that time would have been shot.
This was demanded as early as 1929. June 25 a law signed by President Antanas Smetona and Prime Minister Augustin Voldemar.
It is said that the validity of this law did not disappear anywhere when in 1990. March 11, the independence of the Republic of Lithuania was restored.
After all, it was declared valid in 1938. The Constitution of Lithuania, but since it is not applicable to life, the Provisional Basic Law must be passed immediately.
According to Z. Šličytė, after the restoration of the independence of the occupied state, it was obligatory to legally and morally compare the laws in force in Lithuania.
According to this alleged collaborators law, if Lithuania’s independence were preserved immediately after World War II, Liudas Gira, Salomėja Nėris, P. Cvirka and other figures, not to mention party nomenclaturists, would be sentenced to death. What kind of monuments are we talking about today? “According to this logic, monuments should be erected in Lukiškės Square for all criminals who are even less dangerous than state criminals. Crimes against the state are more serious from the point of view of criminal law,” said Z. Šličytė.
Do you feel the imminent threat?
According to the famous lawyer, the law signed by A. Smetona did not appear by itself at that time, after all, during the entire interwar period, Moscow “brushed its teeth” to Lithuania and sought to hide it under its wing.
And the goal of the underground Lithuanian Communists was not to defend the interests of local workers, but to include Lithuania in Soviet Russia.
Thus appeared President Smetona and Prime Minister Voldemar in 1929. A law was signed to punish participants and their assistants from organizations formed in occupied Lithuania or in foreign countries.
He proclaimed: “1. Whoever participates in organizations formed in occupied Lithuania or foreign states, the purpose of which is to unite Lithuania or a part of it with another state, or overthrow the existing government, or cause a disaster in the Lithuanian state, will be punishable by death.
2. Whoever prepares, attempts to commit or commits an act of terrorism against an authority or public servant for the stated purposes will be punished with the death penalty.
According to this logic, monuments should be erected in Lukiškės square for all criminal criminals who are even less dangerous than state criminals.
3. Whoever encourages contributions to the specified organizations or helps to achieve their objectives through any work, or distributes, preserves or transports literature of those organizations from occupied Lithuania or abroad, will be punished with imprisonment or death for hard work. .
4. Whoever has knowledge of the offenders referred to in (paragraphs 1 to 3), does not report them to the police or the prosecution, will be punished with forced or simple labor imprisonment.
5. The cases of the crimes provided for in this Law during the state of war will be resolved by a court martial, the cases of the crimes provided for in paragraph 4, which will be resolved by a military court.
6. Participants of the organizations mentioned in paragraph 1) who, within one month from the date of promulgation of this Law, if they live in Lithuania, or within three months if they live elsewhere, – leave these organizations and notify the police or the prosecution, sentences are released.
7. This Law shall enter into force on the day of its promulgation. “
P. Cvirkas – to Grūtas Park
After many years, the lawyer who made this law public was stunned by the endless debate about the preservation of Soviet relics.
“It seems very strange to me that it is said whether the monument of Mr. Cvirka should continue in the center of the capital. After 30 years of independence, we finally dare to say who were the criminals and who were the heroes. I have long suggested that the monument of Mr. Cvirka be moved to the tomb of the writer “There is another monument there, so its place would be in Grūtas Park. It is true, for some it is very beautiful, especially for our Minister of Culture, who claims that it is a work of art of socialist realism. But let’s appreciate what kind of personality it represents, “said Z .Sličytė.
According to the former politician and lawyer, there really is no need to allocate more than 40 thousand. euros for discussions on what to do with the sculpture of P. Cvirka.
Document: The law signed by President A. Smetona provided the highest punishment for Lithuanian traitors. / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis
“Now that I heard that money is destined for debate, and everything is happening after 30 years of independence, I am shocked as a lawyer. Read the laws and you will not need thousands of gossip. After all, we have before us a law that clearly defines the activities and responsibilities of those people. “, – said Z. Šličytė.
It is said that if the times of A. Smetona had returned, all “the writers and poets who brought J. Stalin’s sun to Lithuania” would also face the death penalty.
Suspicion of the KGB
The lawyer further regretted that Lithuania had not been able to pass the Deovietization Law (or the so-called “Law on Certain Restrictions on Occupation in Public Administration”).
It would restrict the right of former Soviet nomenclaturists and employees of power structures to hold public office.
Deliberations on the law dragged on into 1992, and the idea itself was eventually discredited, under suspicion that it could be wanton manipulation by KGB representatives.
Function: lawyer and politician Z.Šličytė emphasizes that, from the point of view of criminal law, a crime is more serious for the State than a criminal act. / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis
During the stormy deliberations of 1992. February 2 In the Supreme Council, Lionginas Šepetys, representative of the LDDP, stated that after the approval of the Deovitization Law, “the confrontation and resistance of the Lithuanian people, who came from the past and was fed by the same dark forces, it would probably have acquired an official state character. “
And the deputy Povilas Varanauskas saw the influence of the KGB in the writing of this law.
Virgilijus Čepaitis, considered the main initiator and author of the law, was accused of being a KGB agent who wrote reports to Soviet security guards under the pseudonym Juozas.
In this way, the law of deovitization and its initiators have been fundamentally compromised and will never seriously return to this.
“Reigned by the descendants of the communists”
“When we restored independence, we unfortunately failed to pass the de-Sovietization law. The Supreme Council did not pass that law then. The then idealist wing of the movement was annihilated Šličytė.
By the way, Article 120 of the Criminal Code currently in force in Lithuania states that “a citizen who, under conditions of occupation or annexation, has helped illegal government structures to occupy or annex, suppress the resistance of the Lithuanian population or have assisted in some other way the illegal government against the Republic of Lithuania is punished with up to 5 years in prison “. .
“I think the penalty for collaborating now is very lenient. After all, it is a dangerous state crime. The impression is that the law is favorable to future collaborators. “Deovitization did not take place in 1990, we continue to live in Soviet Lithuania, we are ruled by the hardened and stubborn descendants of the communists. It was a defeat,” he admitted in 1990-1992. Z. Šličytė, deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania.
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