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Red army crimes in Lithuania - inhuman activities of Red army in Lithuania denying the international law - the sequence of the historical facts.

Ten months after Lithuanian independence proclamation in October 1918 the Red Army started the war against Lithuania, and on 5 January 1919 occupied the capital, Vilnius, until Polish Armed Forces attacked in April.(1)

On 15 July 1920 the Red Army broke the treaty just signed at the Kremlin, and entered Vilnius again, a half-day before the Lithuanian army reached the capital.

In October 1939, according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939, the Red Army placed its troops in the Vilnius district. The 16th special corps, consisting of twenty thousand soldiers, together with 250 tanks and 120 planes, were placed in Lithuania.

On 15 June 1940 the Red Army started a fire on the Lithuanian border, killing policeman, and occupied Lithuania, placing more than 150,000 soldiers in Lithuania, thus helping to incorporate Lithuania into Soviet Union. It supported arrests of Lithuanian political leaders, and educated citizens of Lithuania and supported deportations of ten thousand Lithuanian children, women, and old people to Siberia and the GULAG.

In June 1941, during the first week of the German war against the Soviet Union, the Red Army committed war crimes, a total of 40 cases of murdering and killing 700 Lithuanian people in 17 places in Lithuania. The most famous are the Rainiai massacre, the Pravienishkes prison massacre (76 and 260 victims). In Panevezys three doctors and one nurse were killed. The officers of the Lithuanian army were interned and some of them were shot not far from Minsk in the Cherven forest. Many of them were deported to Norilsk.(2)

In 1944 the Red Army again occupied Lithuania and supported new arrests and deportations. For example, in the small town Marijampole SMERS repressed 500 persons and fought against the Lithuanian Liberation Army and partisans from 1944–1952.

Lithuanian people were recruited and forced to participate in the Budapest rebellion in 1956, in Praha events of 1968, in the Afghanistan war, and the work camp at the Chernobyl Atomic plant.

In 13 January 1991 the Red Army attacked strategic Lithuanian communication and media buildings near the TV tower and TV studio in Vilnius, killing 15 and wounding aproximately 500 Lithuanians.

References

1.Bronius Makauskas. Lithuanian history. For XI-XII class. Second book. Vilnius, Šviesa, 2006. ISBN 5430042277 (in Lithuanian)

2 http://www.komisija.lt/en/ The International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania (in English and in Lithuanian)

3.Algirdas Jakubčionis, Stasys Knezys, Arūnas Streikus Pirmoji sovietinė okupacija. Okupacija ir aneksija. The First Soviet Occupation. Occupation and Annexation. I Volume. Vilnius, Margi Raštai, 2006

4. Arvydas Anušauskas Pirmoji sovietinė okupacija. Teroras ir nusikaltimai žmoniškumui. The First Soviet Occupation. Terror and Crimes against Humanity. II Volume. Vilnius, Margi Raštai, 2006

6. http://www.e-biblioteka.org/resursai/Mokslai/LKA/RUS_KAR_ISVEDIMAS.pdf Withdrawal of Russian army from Lithuania. Gintautas Surgailis. Vilnius, 2005. Military Academia of Lithuania. ISBN 9955-423-42-0 (english summary p. 233-235)