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“Lithuania was the first of the Soviet colonies where the Liberation Movement won the democratic parliamentary elections and the authorized representatives of the people unanimously declared the restored independent state. This marked the beginning of a new construction of a democratic society not under dictatorial order. imposed by the Soviet occupation with self-appointed chiefs, ”said V. Landsbergis at his solemn commemoration.
According to him, Lithuania did not want to listen to the instructions of the Kremlin towers, “the empire was angry, intimidated and punished, but it did not break.”
“However, the day has come when the Soviet Union sent its army against independent Lithuania. This is the culmination of January 1991 and its thirteenth day, another night: the confrontation of unarmed citizens defending their freedom with foreign armies, tanks, bullets and explosives, which kill the Lithuanian people. Unarmed defenders of freedom resisted their leaders and the attackers drowned, “said V. Landsbergis.
According to V. Landsbergis, Lithuania told the Soviet empire that “we are not its mansion and its servants, we will live according to the order of free nations, whose name is democracy.”
“Lithuania said, we are people, not you. Our government is a free nation in itself electing temporary government officials. One of them was elected the highest state official under the Provisional Constitution of the restored sovereign country. He submitted to Parliament for His approval the Government of Lithuania and the higher judges, represented Lithuania in international affairs and signed laws passed by Parliament, namely the Supreme Council. Nobody imposed them anymore, the ruler’s orders from abroad, from Moscow. It was independence, “said V. Landsbergis.
Photo by Olga Posaškova / lrs.lt/ Vytautas Landsbergis
According to him, this freedom was “unacceptable for the conquerors, but it was necessary to fight for it from the first days of joy, as of March 11”.
“Such was our victory in the battle of Vilnius for the freedom of many nations. This is the short course”, – V.Landsbergis finished his speech.
As Lithuania commemorates the 30th anniversary of the restoration of independence, and later the 13th anniversary of January, the question of the status of the Chairman of the Supreme-Restorative Council Seimas V. Landsbergis as head of state emerged again in the public sphere.
On the eve of January 13, the Lithuanian Parliament adopted a resolution appointing V. Landsbergis not as head of Lithuania, but only as head of the Supreme Council.
In the previous wording, it was suggested to note that “Lithuania, headed by the president of the Supreme Restorative Council Seimas Vytautas Landsbergis, won the historic victory”, but the appointment of V. Landsbergis as head of the country met some opposition.
Viktoras Pranckietis, the then president of the Seimas, also promised to seek head of state status for V. Landsbergis during the last term, but the idea did not receive political support from the ruling authorities at the time.
January 13 is commemorated in Lithuania as Freedom Defenders Day, in honor of those who died on January 13, 1991 during the Soviet army’s aggression in Vilnius. Then the Soviets attempted to overthrow the legitimate government of Lithuania, which declared the country’s independence from the USSR on March 11, 1990 by military force.
On the night of January 13, 1991 Loreta Asanavičiūtė, Virginijus Druskis, Darius Gerbutavičius, Rolandas Jankauskas, Rimantas Juknevičius, Alvydas Kanapinskas, Algimantas Petras Kavoliukas, Vidas Maciulevičius, Titas Masiulevičius, Juknevičius Poor Titas, Ignitas Volinayitis, Vitasionasvilatosimitis more Vytautas Koncevičius died from their injuries. More than a thousand unarmed people were injured.
Although the Soviet soldiers managed to occupy the Lithuanian Television Tower and the Radio and Television Building, they did not dare to attack the building of the then Supreme-Restorative Council Seimas, which was protected by thousands of people.
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