Krupavicius (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Unmarked copy in excellent condition. No jacket. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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No Binding. Condition: Good. M. Krupavicius, (Former Minister of Agriculture, President of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party), Ed. Turauskns (Minister Plenipotentiary, Secretary General of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party). "An Appeal to the Christian World". Dated "In Exile", October 1, 1946. 13x8.5", offset printed. Staple bound, 3 leaves, printed on one side only. Stapled to the front leaf is a business card "with compliments of the Lithuanian American Information Center", NYC.__+__ Provenance: Library of Congress, with their two stamps on the front leaf and duplicate stamp on the rear leaf. The top of the document (as you can see in the photo) is bumped and a little tattered. Good condition. Scarce. __+__ A cry for assistance for Lithuania to relieve the country of Soviet Occupation: "We consider it our duty to recall the monstrous crimes perpetrated in June, 1940 against the Lithuanian people". "Help, justice and liberty for a martyred people." "The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania before midnight of June 14, 1940. The Soviets, using a formal pretext, demanded to allow an unspecified number of Soviet soldiers to enter the Lithuanian territory and to form a new pro-Soviet government (later known as the "People's Government"). The ultimatum and subsequent incorporation of Lithuania into the Soviet Union stemmed from the division of Eastern Europe into the German and Russian spheres of influence in the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939. Lithuania, along with Latvia and Estonia, fell into the Russian sphere."--Wiki __+__ The paper relates the Nazi "Massacres, deportations, and man-hunts to secure compulsory labor to break the will of the Lithuanian people"; and also the bleak periods of Soviet control before and after the Nazis arrived in 1941. After July 1944, Lithuania was "liberated" a second time by the Soviets, resulting in "extermination of entire villages" and complete political subjugation; also after the war came periods of mass arrests and deportations as new citizens were brought in to "settle" the country. __+__ Krupavius was arrested and deported to Germany where he was held under house arrest in a carmelite monastery in Regensburg. In 1945 he was elected as chairman of the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania and served in such capacity for a decade."--Wiki.