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Eighty years ago, two senior officials of the Republic of Lithuania were handed over to NKVD assassins: then-Interior Minister Kazys Skučas and the director of the Department of State Security, Augustinas Povilaitis, whose sacrifice for “better relations with the Soviets” It is in full swing today. The Kremlin propagandists once again attempt to crucify these two Lithuanian statesmen, and once again receive the help of the citizens of our country.
Ultimatum point no. one
1940 June 16 Lithuanian state official “Lietuvos aidas” posted a message on the cover of the morning issue “For the news of all Lithuanian citizens and residents”.
“On June 14 of this year at 11 pm (our time), the President of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union and Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Molotov presented an ultimatum to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Urbšis in Moscow , which was required until June 10 at 10 am Moscow time, meets the following three requirements:
1) that the Minister of the Interior Skučas and the Director of the Department of State Security Povilaitis be brought to justice immediately, as the direct culprits of provocative actions against the Soviet crew in Lithuania.
2) Immediately form a government in Lithuania that can and is determined to guarantee the honorable implementation of the Mutual Assistance Agreement between the Soviet Union and Lithuania and to restrain the enemies of the agreement with determination.
3) To immediately guarantee free passage to the territory of Lithuania, distribute Soviet troops in the most important centers of Lithuania in a sufficient quantity to guarantee the implementation of the Mutual Assistance Agreement between the Soviet Union and Lithuania and avoid provocative actions against the Soviet crew in Lithuania. “
The bandits needed motivation to break into strangers’ homes.
The ultimatum is accepted, all the points of the requirement are met, including the first.
An absolutely shameful fact in the history of the Lithuanian state, but then Antanas Merkys, who was the President of the Republic, constantly adhered to the ultimatum and sanctioned the arrest of both officials, condemning them to brutal torture and death.
This did not save Lithuania’s independence or A. Merkis’s own life.
After handing over the ultimatum to Juozas Urbšis, Vyacheslav Molotov said unequivocally that “whatever the answer, the Soviet army will continue to enter Lithuania.”
Judging by this aspect, the arrest and surrender of A. Povilaitis and K.Skučas to the Soviet state was not an honor, it is one of the greatest betrayals in the history of interwar Lithuania.
Switched on persona non grata
However, the fight for Lithuanian statesmen extradited and assassinated at the time is far from over today.
Earlier this year, Alexander Diukov, who was appointed propagandist for the Kremlin, published a book “Documents Open the Gates of Secrets” in Lithuanian Riga.
The caption of the print affirming the academic publication reads: “Case study of A. Povilaitis, Director of the Department of State Security of the Republic of Lithuania”.
Sacrifice: The arrest and surrender of A. Povilaitis (right) and K.Skučas to the Soviet state was not an honor at that time or now. (Photo from the Lithuanian Central State Archive and ukmergesmuziejus.lt)
In the Russian summary of the book, the author does not hide the fact that “this is the result of many years of research, allowing us to re-analyze the motivation for the Kremlin’s actions towards the Baltic States in June 1940.”
A.Diukov has been famous for those new “gazes” in the interwar history of the Baltic States and the Soviet Union, which finally closed his opportunities to come to Lithuania in general.
2014 May 2 According to the decision of the Lithuanian Migration Department, it is included in the national list of people whose presence in Lithuania is undesirable.
According to the newspaper, this decision is valid for 10 years, unless the term is extended again for some reason in the future.
2014 In August A.Diukov had arrived in Vilnius to participate in the presentation of his book on the Holocaust, but the border guards returned him to Moscow.
He then appealed against these actions by Lithuanian officials to the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court, which, after examining the administrative case, decided to dismiss the applicant’s complaint as unfounded.
At that time, it was repeatedly made public that “Russian citizen A. Diukov, a Russian citizen of special services, who had not been admitted to Lithuania, was trying to justify the crimes of the Stalinist regime with his publications.”
Vaigutis Stančikas, who translated his book on the Holocaust from Russian, claimed that the Russians were unable to enter Lithuania because they disagreed with Lithuania’s official position in evaluating history.
V. Stančikas himself also translated A. Diukovas’s latest book on the case of A. Povilaitis.
Who needed revisionism?
Who needed to rethink the history of the 80 years, if all the facts mentioned in A.Diukov’s publication are known to Lithuanian historians and have been publicly published for a long time?
Historian Arvydas Anušauskas, who has written extensively on this subject, is convinced that the emergence of this publication is a new attempt to justify the 1940s. Occupation of Lithuania.
A. Anušauskas stated that he had read A. Diukovas’s new book and noted that the author uses material well known to Lithuanian historians.
“Despite the author’s attempts to distance himself from some things with preconceived notions, it appears that his work is intended to justify the 1940 Soviet ultimatum, as well as to justify aggressive actions and occupation, although the publication itself seeks to take a stand supposedly stronger scientist, “he said. A.Anušauskas.
According to him, A.Dukukov tries to claim that the demand to arrest A.Povilaitis is not related to the kidnapping of Soviet soldiers, but rather to his trips to Berlin, which allegedly “investigated” the possibilities of Lithuania obtaining a German protectorate.
“All this was known before. However, the essence of the context of this publication is to emphasize the communication of Lithuanian officials with German officials, but completely silence the communication of the Soviets and the Nazis even with the same people,” said A Anušauskas.
A breath of revenge
The horse of A.Diukov’s publication is an attempt to show that Lithuania “gravitated” to the German side, therefore, the Soviet Union had no choice but to occupy Lithuania.
To corroborate these statements, the time of A. Povilaitis’s trips to Berlin is raised, where he discussed cooperation with the German intelligence forces.
These episodes become an essential reason why the 1940s. In June, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviets.
And A. Povilaitis and K.Skučas are the “main culprits” because the state lost its independence.
Thus, little is said about the fact that these statesmen were sacrificed 80 years ago, now A. Dukkov is again trying to incite all sins upon them.
“Who needs all this? You see, when you are guilty, you want to anoint others. I think it is a kind of revenge. Because we took facts that were squeezed during interrogations. Then a bubble was made to explode and now it continues to explode because they have nothing plus”. two friends (J.Stalinas and A.Hitler – AD) had already agreed, they had divided the territories. What protectorate is being discussed, especially after the opening of the Klaipėda region? Who needs to lie? The bandits needed motivation to break into foreign houses. to push the idea forward: “Lithuania turned to Germany, we saved the situation and ourselves.” That is the purpose of this publication, “said historian Alfonsas Eidintas.
Alfonsas Eidintas / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis
Documents were delivered, but not all
The historian Gediminas Rudis, a scholar of this time, who revised A.Diukov’s publication, missed the criticism of his opponents, which is generally mandatory in works of this level.
“You cannot publish a historical publication without criticism. Even more because there is so much controversy here. These are testimonies of that time, it does not matter if they are handwritten by A. Povilaitis himself. Do you think he was sitting at the table and the two spoke to the interrogator? After all, one person has been tortured. The material of the interrogation must be read very critically. That is the rule, “said G. Rudis.
Facsimiles are generally included when publishing documents. Often as an illustration.
When the topic is highly controversial, the text of the document, written on a computer, should be provided, along with a mandatory document fax for comparison.
Now all this is not there. As in the case of K. Skučas, where, according to K. Skučaitė, the daughter of K. Skuča, who received the documents from Russia, only a third of the documents were delivered to her, some names of interrogators have been merged, some have stuck.
“A.Dukukov and his publications are well known, this is not the first such work. It is obvious that revisionism started in Russia. According to A.Povilaitis interrogation documents, they now have to demonstrate that Lithuania violated the mutual aid by kidnapping the Red Army. ” asked the German protectorate, etc. In other words, revanchism began and A.Dukov appeared at its peak, “thinks G. Rudis.
Translator – from Lithuania
A.Diukov’s book was published in Riga this year, in Lithuania it probably does not exist. It can only be found online.
The publication was translated and the preface to the Lithuanian translation was written by V. Stančikas, a Lithuanian citizen and fellow student of Professor A. Eidintas.
According to data from the Central Electoral Commission, in 2009, with the Polish electoral campaign, he claimed to enter the European Parliament.
V. Stančikas stated that he had offered to translate A. Diukov’s book. But he assured that he did not know if this was released at all. He did not see it himself.
“A decade ago in Moscow, A.Diukov published the book” Lithuania – Protectorate. “Lithuanian historians recognized it as defamatory, and A.Diukov himself was declared undesirable here and was barred from entering Lithuania for 10 years. Then he said he would write another book and wrote “The documents open the door to secrets.” I think people need to know everything. After all, this is scientific work. I don’t know why Diukov needed this book. I see the question from Antanas Smetona and Germany has evolved very well in the last 30 years. ” – said V. Stančikas.
Who else helped A.Dukov?
One more thing hit A.Anušauskas. A.Diukovas is not allowed to enter Lithuania, he has been declared persona non grata, but has used documents stored in Lithuania.
Consequently, other people collected data from A.Diukovas in the Lithuanian archives.
“Obviously, he didn’t do it himself. His post contains specific cases from Lithuania’s special archives. So I wonder who did the inquiry point for A. Diukovas in Lithuania. How to evaluate it? Many people can sell something for money, but I find it interesting. ” , who was that helper “, – said A. Anušauskas.
The Lithuanian Special Archive contains fragments from the A. Povilaitis archive.
Those documents are available and can be seen and seen by anyone who wishes, only the names of those interested are recorded in a special newspaper.
According to the newspaper, A.Diukovas never requested the Lithuanian Special Archives, either personally or in writing, which means that A.Anušauskas’s ideas are correct: someone from the locals helped.
Perhaps the translator V. Stančikas could have helped him? However, he assured him that he had not compiled any documents for A. Diukov.
“No, I did not help him. He wrote this book without me. But when I translated it, I had to review A. Povilaitis’s interrogation material, because he was interviewed here, so I searched the archives and read there. And all. I did not help. A. Dukov to collect the material, he did not know who did it, “explained V. Stančikas.
A. Anušauskas noted that, looking at the earlier works written by A. Diukovas, it can be seen that he was often provided with information services by third parties, including the Russian Federal Security Service.
According to A.Anušauskas, A.Diukovas is now trying to distance himself from him in every possible way, this character is probably trying to intervene in the scientific community in this way.
Therefore, in the new publication, he even sent his letter to the FSB representative, who allegedly did not allow him to hear about the A. Povilaitis case, as evidence that it was not related to the Russian special services.
However, some nuances show that he became familiar with the entire case of A. Povilaitis, he simply did not provide references to the original, which is stored in the FSB files, but he knows the structure of the case, in how many volumes it consists. In other words I couldn’t have written it. ” “, A. Anušauskas showed his version.
The president’s rhetoric does not change
It is no coincidence that A.Diukov’s publication appeared just before the 80th anniversary of the occupation of Lithuania.
This is just another consistent attempt, seen in recent years in Vladimir Putin’s Russia policies and efforts to unite history, justifying the 1940s. Actions of the USSR.
Today, no one but Russia itself has doubts that the occupation of the Baltic States was a direct consequence of collusion between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols.
However, in a speech delivered over the weekend to mark the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, the Russian president emphasized that Russia does not practice revisionism in history, but the West.
It is true, in 1989. The Congress of the People’s Deputies of the USSR condemned the secret protocols of this pact and declared them null and void.
Today, however, the Russian state Duma is already considering initiatives to reverse this decision of the People’s Deputies.
And President Putin himself sees the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement only as an act of someone’s personal power.
“I remember that the Soviet Union gave a legal and moral evaluation to the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. By resolution of December 24, 1989, the Supreme Council formally condemned the secret protocols as an” act of personal authority “with nothing to do with the will of the Soviet people. this agreement “, emphasized V. Putin in his speech.
It is obvious that the fight for the honor of two Lithuanian officials issued by their state 80 years ago is not over, because there are still attempts to claim from the opposing barricades that they were to blame for the Soviets being forced to occupy Lithuania.
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