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unusual facts about Lithuanian SSR



21st Guards Motor Rifle Division

In 1969 31st Guards Motor Rifle Division was relocated from Kaunas in the Lithuanian SSR (Baltic Military District) to Belogorsk, in the Amur area of the Far East Military District.

Anatoly Lebed

He first trained in the 44th Airborne Division in Gaižiūnai in the Lithuanian SSR and later served in the 57th Independent Air Assault Brigade in Taldykorgan in the Kazakh SSR.

Freedom Monument

The three stars were said to stand for the newly created Baltic Soviet RepublicsEstonian SSR, Latvian SSR, and Lithuanian SSR – held aloft by Mother Russia and the monument was said to have been erected after World War II as a sign of popular gratitude toward the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for the liberation of the Baltic States.


see also

KAG

Kauno Autobusų Gamykla, a factory in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR that produced buses from 1956 to 1979, most based on the GAZ-51 truck