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Maybe other concepts. At least I wonder if the word “genocide” is the correct word.
Genocide is internationally recognized against Jews and Armenians. We know when and under what circumstances this crime was committed.
Significantly, this word also sounds adapted to Lithuania, but according to the principle of correctness of concepts, perhaps on its behalf LGGRTC should be abandoned. As a result, the crime of the Stalinist Soviet Union against the people of Lithuania would be no less serious.
I would suggest creating a solid occupation museum, covering aspects of 50 years of captivity, leaving, of course, research on Soviet crimes and resistance to the regime.
But the research itself should be done using the methods of historical science. I wanted to add that research should be depoliticized, but I realize that looking at the recent past, and yet so complicated, is almost impossible.
Living witnesses to the occupation, and finally a large number of researchers, are participants in two eras, making it practically impossible to achieve “robotic” objectivity.
The reform would not undermine the work done by LGGRTC. I would venture to say that this is one of the most successful projects that was started during the Sąjūdis initiative group.
By the way, I myself had to participate in the distant origins of this idea. LGGRTC’s works will always be accompanied by a brilliant memory of the composer, a member of the initiative group Sąjūdis J.Juzeliūnas.
The institution’s greatest merit is the Western approach to man, his suffering and his destiny. The victims of the regime’s repression are immortalized. The resistance has been built in a proper place in the history of Lithuania.
I even remember the restraint that prevailed in the Sąjūdis for several years over the postwar freedom fighters. It took several years for a panoramic map of those battles to begin to appear. And where is the other side of the coin: the slimy issue of collaboration. She still has a lot of question marks. This LGGRTC is often like a stone under a circle of carriages.
In fact, in the context of current passions, the words of the director of LGGRTC, A.Jakubauskas, surprised me a bit: KGB.
They ask for the constitution of a working group that includes historians, representatives of the Signatory Club and deportees and political prisoners, and that the matter be re-investigated. I am preparing to sign that order today. “
I, as a signatory, have not signed such an appeal, but that is not the most important thing. Maybe it’s a good draw.
Unfortunately, for now at least, LGGRTC is an extra piece of firewood. Any test result will be bad for anyone. Also, the real truth is far from Lithuania. As in many similar cases.
Yes, it happens that the truth is also established with the available footage, but I don’t think so. One thing I know for sure: Cardinal V. Sladkevičius was only an agent of God.
It is necessary to create a museum of the occupation, more precisely, to extend the Museum of the Genocide to a panorama of 50 years of “exit from Egyptian captivity”.
Modern, let’s say, like in Poland, vacant landfill “cooperating” with the KGB. One that would be fun for all generations.
After the occupation, I imagine three Lithuanians in the dome of the museum. The first, after 1940. until the end of the war. The commotion struck and disturbed so much that even a part of the intelligentsia did not realize what was really happening.
The second Lithuania is a resistance and with a clear collaborative government, one part of the population believes that freedom is achieved, the other is increasingly thinking of resisting wisely, because it will destroy everyone.
The third Lithuania is the strangest: one part is adapted, the other is already reconciled, the third thinks differently that it speaks and still has a peak of power in its pocket. Officially appeasing the occupants and robbing them at the same time. For professional and pragmatic purposes, hundreds join the Communist Party. A new generation is emerging here who admires archaic Lithuanian songs, ancient beliefs and customs. No one with a hippie hairstyle starts wanting more freedom than wearing clothes.
The marginalized Church recovers, dissenting voices penetrate ideological and prison walls. In two and a half generations, three social transformations.
No one has yet managed to put it into a whole. The Museum of the Occupation could initiate this process.
But this cannot be done without a fair and authentic sample from each period. Always looking at the recent past, “musing”, there is the temptation to show yourself better than you really were. For example, that the entire period of occupation is a constant struggle for the freedom of Lithuania, even if it was done in the manner of the now famous saying “my little war”.
Unfortunately, after the partisan uprising, the ranks of the combatants diminished, and many began to plan the idea of ”socialism with a human face”, which was like a security of conscience that the Communist Party sought.
Many questions arise about people’s thinking when looking at that moment. Liberation flags were already waving in Vingis Park, and at the same time hundreds of young people lined up to improve at the Party Superior School (lists in the archive).
“Vienžu” (favorite saying of the signer B. Genzelis), that Lithuania is interesting. Indeed, a lot of material for an interesting occupation museum.
