Communist Party of Lithuania

The Communist Party of Lithuania ( Lithuanian Lietuvos komunistų partija ) was the communist party in Lithuania. It was founded in the beginning of October 1918.

History

The party worked illegally until the year 1940. During the summer of this year, when the Red Army of the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania by force, the party was associated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At the same time the Soviet authorities installed a new Soviet Republic, the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, as the leading party, by definition, the Communist Party of Lithuania was provided. The former first secretary of the party, Antanas Snieckus, and also the following first secretaries, were de facto governors of the Soviet-occupied Lithuania. In the following 50 years of Soviet occupation of Lithuania, the first secretary of the party ethnically always a Lithuanian communist sentiments, and the second secretary was always a straight from the CPSU party headquarters posted in Moscow Russian.

When in 1988 a movement for restoration of state independence of Lithuania, Sąjūdis, founded, and this movement received support from the widest population of Lithuania, the Communist Party of Lithuania fell more and more under pressure.

In February 1989 Sąjūdis publicly declared that Lithuania had been forcibly occupied and annexed in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, and that the ultimate goal of the movement was the regaining of national independence. The state's independence was proclaimed by the movement in May 1989 - initially without any international recognition - and explains the collection of Lithuania by the Soviet Union as illegal.

On August 23, 1989, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the former dictatorships of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, a 600- kilometer-long chain of two million people joined the cities of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, and drew the attention of international public to the aspirations of the peoples of the Baltic region. This demonstration and the coordinated efforts of the three Baltic nations were called The Baltic Way known (Estonian Balti kett, Latvian Baltijas ceļš, Lithuanian Baltijos kelias ).

In December, the Communist Party of Lithuania declared their withdrawal from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and gave consent known to waive the state's monopoly of power. In February 1990, representatives of Sąjūdis obtained an absolute majority in the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR. Vytautas Landsbergis was elected President of the Supreme Council. This paved the state's independence declaration on 11 March 1990.

Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania

In 1990, the Communist Party of Lithuania was transformed under the leadership of Algirdas Brazauskas in a new party under the name Lietuvos demokratinė darbo partija ( LDDP, in German " Democratic Party of Labour of Lithuania ") to which, in turn, later with the traditional, but small social Democratic Party of Lithuania ( Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija, LSDP ) united. The new united party retained the Social Democratic name, but is still mainly characterized by ex-communist leaders.

  • Lithuanian SSR
  • Communist Party
  • Historic Party ( Lithuania)
Communism Marxism–Leninism Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
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