Our Way to Freedom

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Gelvonai Secondary SchoolLithuania

2014

Celebrations

13 JanuaryThe Day of Rememberance of the Television

Tower incident

The January Events took place in Lithuania between

January 11 and 13, 1991 in the aftermath of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. As a result of Soviet military actions, 13 civilians were killed and around 700 injured.

On 11 March 1990, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania adopted an Act on the Restoration of an Independent State of Lithuania.

11 MarchReestablishment of Independence

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression pact signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939. The pact's publicly stated intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by either party towards the other, and a commitment that neither party would ally

with nor aid an enemy of the other party.

23 AugustThe Day of Rememberance of the Molotov-

Ribbentrop Pact

Our Way to Freedom in Literature

Literature was linked to the national independence movement. Writings were characterized by simbolism, romanticism and existentialism. The Soviet occupation undermined the creativity of writers, many of whom fled to the west and wrote in secret.

He wrote the book Dievų miškas (Forest of the Gods). It describes the life in a concentration camp.

Balys Sruoga

Bronius Krivickas

He was a poet and partisan. He was killed in 1952 in a battle, expected future historians to ponder how tiny Lithuania “did not fall but managed to struggle hard and long”.

She was a poet and partisan of Lithuania. She fought for freedom and also she was a good poet who wrote beautiful poems about the

freedom of Lithuania.

Diana Glemžaitė

Our Way to Freedom in Films

The 1966 film Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas nenorėjo mirti) by Vytautas Žalakevičius. This film shows the tragedy of the conflict in which “a brother goes against the brother”.

The 2005 film Forest of the Gods directed by Algimantas Puipa, based on the Balys Sruoga noverl of the same name. It is a story about one man an artist and an intellectual who was imprisoned by two brutual regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets.

Our Way to Freedom in Art

The Road of the Freedom is a sculpture commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the resoration of the State of Lithuania in Vilnius. The sculpture is symbolic of the live chain of people who, more than 20 years ago, joined hands and connected the three Baltic States.

Chapel for partisans in Kaisiadorys cemetery is one of modern creations of Independent Lithuania, when it was a normal thing to honour there, who were fighting for freedom (it was vice versa in Soviet times). Chapel was built in 1993 - 1998. 

The Monument Angel built in Rokiškis in

2003 The monument to

Tauras county partisans in Marijampolė

Our Way to Freedom in Music

Rock March – was a rock music festival, organized in various cities of Lithuania. It was held in 1987, 1988, 1989, updated in 1996 and 1997. Early festivals shared the Sąjūdis ideology, and openly supported the Lithuanian independence movement. Later festivals encouraged

participation in public life.

Antis is a Lithuanian postmodernist rock band. The name is the Lithuanian word for "duck" and is also slang for a false mass media sensation. Antis  was a politically motivated band that played proscribed music in several styles including ska. They also wrote their own songs with jaunty horns and witty ironic lyrics.