{"id":674,"date":"2021-01-14T19:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/?p=674"},"modified":"2021-01-14T19:32:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:32:36","slug":"landsbergis-man-who-opposed-soviets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/2021\/01\/14\/landsbergis-man-who-opposed-soviets\/","title":{"rendered":"Landsbergis, the man who opposed the Soviets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vytautas Landsbergis<\/strong> was actually the <strong>first leader of the free Lithuania<\/strong>. He was the person <strong>who declared independence of Lithuania on March 11 1990<\/strong>. Listening to him in this interview is like hearing history happens. <strong>Landsbergis is among people who founded Saj\u016bdis<\/strong>, the movement won the 1990 election in Lithuania, and forced the Soviets to accept their independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH OUR VIDEO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Landsbergis, l&#039;uomo che port\u00f2 la Lituania alla libert\u00e0 - the man who opposed the Soviets ENG SUB\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/89loSNKbDSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t an easy process. <strong>The Soviet Union, led by Michail Gorba\u010d\u00ebv, didn\u2019t have any intention to grant the freedom<\/strong>. There were many difficulties and long periods of high tension, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/2020\/01\/22\/vilnius-remember-events-january-1991\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially at the end of 1990<\/a><\/strong> when the Soviet Union <strong>decided to repress the Lithuanians\u2019 hope very harshly<\/strong> with a military action. In the capital Vilnius, <strong>they sent elite troops and many tanks to protect the sovereignty of Soviet Union<\/strong>. The troops surrounded the Soviet Supreme, now the Parliament, while <strong>peaceful people decided to go down in the streets to protest<\/strong> against that latest proof of strenght by the Soviets.<strong> People built many barricades<\/strong> all round the Parliament. There were some deaths. Finally, the Soviets had to s<strong>u<\/strong>rrender.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landsbergis tell us how his country lived those days<\/strong>, about his meetings with the Soviet authority <strong>and his face-to-face encounter with Michail Gorba\u010d\u00ebv<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/2021\/01\/05\/molotov-ribbentrop-pact-secret-protocols\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(translation by <a href=\"https:\/\/ingleseamericano.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Inglese Americano<\/strong><\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vytautas Landsbergis was actually the first leader of the free Lithuania. He was the person who declared independence of Lithuania on March 11 1990. Listening to him in this interview is like hearing history happens. Landsbergis is among people who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10],"tags":[31,13,11,19,17,18,70,15,30,41,76],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lithuanianstories.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}