{"id":459,"date":"2018-10-16T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/?p=459"},"modified":"2019-09-25T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T14:01:00","slug":"tuskulenai-a-contaminated-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/2018\/10\/16\/tuskulenai-a-contaminated-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuskul\u0117nai, A contaminated landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been in Tuskul\u0117nai Park<\/strong><\/a> in the suburb of Vilnius<\/strong>. In this place almost 800 people<\/strong> were buried secretly<\/strong> from 1944 to 1947 by the Soviet regime<\/strong>. People were killed in the headquarter of the KGB<\/strong>, located in the center of Vilnius, and then they were brought and buried here.<\/p>\n

This is a big mass grave<\/strong>, made in total secret, and discovered in 1994<\/strong>. Four years after the conquest of Lithuanian indipendence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was a discovered by chance. In that period some archeological escavations<\/strong> began and during the works many human remains came into the light<\/strong>. Those humans remains were traced back to the Soviet crimes<\/strong> and were collected inside the Columbarium<\/strong> under a small hill. Most of them have not been identified. Just about 50 of them were given a name, while the others are still unknown.<\/p>\n

In addition at the Columbarium, in this park there is a small museum<\/strong>, an exhibition that tells these facts.<\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ll come in the museum, where Monika Kareniauskait\u0117, Historian, Genocide and Resistant Research Centre of Lithuania<\/a>, <\/strong>is waiting for us. She will tell this story. Here the video<\/strong>. (Translation by https:\/\/ingleseamericano.it<\/a> )<\/p>\n