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4 unusual facts about Lithuanian–Soviet War


Lithuanian–Soviet War

On December 8, 1918, a temporary revolutionary government, chaired by Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, was formed solely from members of the Communist Party of Lithuania.

Poland did not recognize Lithuania, as its Chief of State Józef Piłsudski wanted a union with Lithuania in hopes to revive the old Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (see Międzymorze federation).

Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire after the final partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.

Walter von Eberhardt

Lieutenant-General Friedrich Wilhelm Magnus Heinrich Walter von Eberhardt (7 January 1862 - 7 January 1944), generally known as Walter von Eberhardt, was a German military commander during World War I and the Lithuanian–Soviet War of 1918-19.


Adomaitis

Dainius Adomaitis (born 1974), Lithuanian basketball player and coach

Aleksandr Kazakevič

In 2014 Kazakevič was one of the contestants in Lithuanian version of reality show Celebrity Splash! called Šuolis!.

Alfred Bartłomiej Peszke

Alfred Bartłomiej Peszke (born 14 December 1899, died 3 March 1966 in Croydon) was a Polish Air Force officer, infantry veteran of the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) and Air Force veteran of the September 1939 Campaign.

Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius

These include Our Lady's Church, Montreal (1952), St. St. Casimir's Church, Winnipeg and St. Gregory's Church, Toronto (1959), Lithuanian Martyrs' Church, Mississauga, Providence of God Church and Cultural Center, Detroit and St. Thomas Church, London (1978), Corporation Canadien Tire Building, Toronto (1979) etc.

Andriuškevičius

Martynas Andriuškevičius (born 1986), Lithuanian basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association

Battle of Koziatyn

The Battle of Koziatyn (also known as the Raid on Koziatyn and Koziatyn Envelopment) of 25–27 April 1920 was one of the most spectacular raids of the Polish cavalry during the Polish-Soviet War.

Be My Love

Also Vytautas Juozapaitis, a soloist of Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre recorded a Lithuanian version entitled "Atminimu Bangos" on his debut album Negaliu Nemyleti (Can't Help Falling In Love) released in 2004.

BK VEF Rīga

During the season Kurtinaitis left Riga for Russian side BC Khimki and he was replaced by another Lithuanian Ramūnas Butautas, who already had experience in Latvia having won the 2007 Latvian league championship with ASK Rīga.

Casimir of Poland

Saint Casimir (1458 - 1484), Polish-Lithuanian prince, patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, and the young

Česlovas

Česlovas Kundrotas (b. 1961), Lithuanian long-distance runner and Olympic competitor

Chodko Jurewicz

Samogitian Borejko (Lithuanian: Bareika) won the challenge and was generously rewarded by the Grand Duke.

Daujotas

Tomas Baranauskas, a modern Lithuanian historian, believes that Vilikaila and Daujotas might be sons of Stekšys, a Lithuanian duke killed in 1214.

Eimuntas Nekrošius

1994 Nekrošius received a special prize of the Lithuanian Theatre Union as the Best Director of the Year, and an award of the Baltic Assembly for Aleksandr Pushkin's Little Tragedies (Mozart and Salieri. Don Juan. Plague) as the best theatre performance in the Baltic States.

Foje

In 1997 the band finally decided to disband and performed 3 huge gigs in Lithuanian cities of Klaipėda, Kaunas, and Vilnius, with an attendance of 60,000 in the final performance on 17 May in Vingis Park of Vilnius.

Giedraitis

Giedraitis family, a noble family in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Gwiaździsta eskadra

Gwiaździsta eskadra told the romantic story of love between a Polish girl and an American volunteer pilot in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille (better known as the Kościuszko Squadron) during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921.

Henryk Korowicz

During the First World War, he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and, after Polish independence, in the Polish Army, during the Polish-Soviet War, on the Volhynia front.

Kaunas Railway Tunnel

The construction was surveyed by the French engineer G. F. Perrot, as well as Polish-Lithuanian engineer Stanisław Kierbedź.

Kleiza

Saulius Kleiza (born 1964), Lithuanian shot putter and discus thrower

Linas Kleiza (born 1985), Lithuanian basketball player who has played in the National Basketball Association

Konstantin Ostrozhsky

Konstanty Ostrogski (c. 1460-1530), Lithuanian nobleman and military leader

Laisvė

The privately-owned paper was originally associated with the American Lithuanian Socialist Union, forerunner of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America.

Leonardus Syttin

Leonardus "Leonid" Syttin (born 3 December 1892 in Vilnius, date of death unknown) was a Lithuanian sport shooter who competed for the Russian Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Lina Braknytė

The film is in Lithuanian and is known as The Last Day of Vacations in Lithuania.

Lithuanian Metrica

By 1569, when the regions of Podlaskie, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev were separated from Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and incorporated into Kingdom of Poland, the books which concerned these regions, were removed from the Lithuanian Metrica, and merged into the Polish Metrica.

Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Tom Clancy partially set his novel The Hunt for Red October in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, and gave the book's protagonist and his family a history of mistreatment at the hands of Great Russians.

Litvin

Others, to the contrary, propose the idea of a unification with the modern Republic of Lithuania basing on common roots of the Belarusian and modern Lithuanian statehood in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Maksimas Katche

Among other Lithuanian soldiers he received the Latvian Military Order of Lāčplēsis 3rd class.

Nerijus

Nerijus Vasiliauskas (born 1977), Lithuanian footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga

Palanga

Their adversaries were unable to achieve their goal of capturing the Lithuanian sea-coast from Klaipėda to Šventoji.

Pascal Mendy

Lithuanian-Russian businessman Vladimir Romanov finances both clubs and a number of Kaunas players have already moved to Hearts in this manner.

Perkūnas

Perkūnas is also mentioned in the same author's Crosstime Traffic series, in the book Gunpowder Empire, as still being one of the principal gods of the Lithuanian-dominated northern portion of Europe in that book's alternate-history present day period.

Polish Livonia

Inflanty Voivodeship, a district of the Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621) that was retained by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Treaty of Oliva in 1660

Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth

The idea of Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth returned during the January Uprising, when in 1861, a patriotic demonstration took place at Horodło.

Sójkówek

Located upon Kanał Kacapski (aka "Struga"), meliorative canal, build by Soviet soldiers captured during the 1920 Polish-Soviet war.

Stefan Constantinescu

The exhibition incorporates a cardboard installation with a series of video works by Hungarian artist Péter Forgács, Poland’s Zuzanna Janin, UK-based collaborators Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Lithuanian Deimantas Narkevičius and Switzerland’sYves Netzhammer, sound-work by Liliana Moro, a sculpture by Via Lewandowski and Constantinescu's own film My Beautiful Dacia.

Stepa

Stepas Butautas (1925–2001), Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics

Teodoras Daukantas

He was Lithuanian Consul General in Rio de Janeiro (1932–1935) and Minister Plenipotentiary of South America (1936–1939).

Vydūnas

writer and philosopher, a leader of the Prussian Lithuanian national movement in Lithuania Minor, and one of leaders of the theosophical movement in East Prussia.

Waldemar Rezmer

A professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, he specializes in the modern military history, particularly Polish, Lithuanian and Soviet.

Yelnya Offensive

The Soviet Army's Yelnya Offensive operation (August 30 – September 8, 1941) was part of the Battle of Smolensk during the initial period of the German-Soviet War.

Yeshivat Aderet Eliyahu

Yeshivat Aderet Eliyahu (ישיבת אדרת אליהו), commonly referred to as "Zilberman's," is a Haredi, Lithuanian educational facility located between the Jewish and Muslim quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

There he published his research work Lithuanian Tatars dedicated to the history and culture of Lipka Tatars.

Žalgiris Kaunas

FBK Kaunas, Lithuanian football club from Kaunas, formerly known as Žalgiris Kaunas

Žalvarinis

The song Aš kanapį sėjau (I Sowed a Hemp), taken from the 2005 album Žalio vario was featured on Transformations in Lithuanian Song – a 2006 compilation CD that covered the development of Lithuanian folk music over many years, published by the Lithuanian-American journal Lituanus.

Zenonas Puzinauskas

He worked as a translator in the United States Army and played for Kempton Šarūnas Lithuanian emigrants basketball team.

Žydrūnas

retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and assistant general manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers


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