How it all Started with Valeria from Lithuania

Part I: Starting point A 13 - year - old girl is sitting on a frozen ship surrounded by strangers. I am sitting alone without my family. She remembered the family she was leaving and went to a new life in the distance. This young girl is my grandmother Valeria Zableckis. She left Lithuania 's house to come to America. I do not know much about her, but I am very happy to explore her past. Valeria Zableckis I got acquainted with her a few days ago, but I am already very interested in it. I want to know the reason why she left Lithuania.

Catholic youth organization called Ateitininkai, Atetis started in Lithuania in 1910. During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania from 1945 to 1990, Lithuania did not recognize Catholic organizations. However, the organization continued being expelled outside Lithuania. After Lithuania regained independence in 1990, Ateitis returned to Lithuania as an official youth organization. Many branches other than Lithuania continue to serve immigrants in Lithuania and future generations

The atmosphere of freedom soon enveloped the Soviet Union itself. The stagnation of the economy stimulated the independence movement of Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. By March 1990, they all broke out of Moscow. At the same time, democratic reformist Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia and soon resigned as a member of the Soviet Communist Party. For the hardliners of the Kremlin, this is all overkill. On August 18, 1991, they put Gorbachev in a state of house arrest and started a coup. Yeltsin went up to the aquarium outside the Parliament House and summoned the anti-coup protesters in Moscow. The coup plotter, the crowd shakes incompetently, and retreats. Gorbachev regained power, but his age is small, in the meantime - the Soviet Union is also true

On March 11, the newly elected Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic announced that he elected Sjjdisdis leader Vytautas Landsbergis as its chairman and made Lithuania the first Soviet republic to leave Lithuania. Soviet Union. Moscow clearly made an economic blockade in Lithuania to maintain "troops of Russians" and maintained troops. Latvia declared independence on May 4, 1990, the declaration stipulating the completion of an independent transition period. "Declaration" points out that the country is still a sovereign province of the law because Latvia actually lost its independence in the Second World War, but the consolidation is unconstitutional, contrary to the people's desires of Latvia did.