OWTF 2012-2014.

1. Our Way to Freedom
Feedbacks in Art, Culture, Literature
and Media.
Gelvonai Secondary School
Lithuania
2014

2. Celebrations
13 January
The Day of Rememberance of the Television Tower
incident
The January Events took place in Lithuania between
January 11 and 13, 1991 in the aftermath of the Act of the
Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. As a result
of Soviet military actions, 13 civilians were killed and
around 700 injured.

4. On 11 March 1990, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania
adopted an Act on the Restoration of an Independent State of
Lithuania.
11 March
Reestablishment of Independence

5. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression pact signed in
Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939. The pact's publicly
stated intentions were a guarantee of non-belligerence by either party
towards the other, and a commitment that neither party would ally
with nor aid an enemy of the other party.
23 August
The Day of Rememberance of the Molotov-
Ribbentrop Pact

6. Our Way to Freedom in
Literature
Literature was linked to the national
independence movement. Writings were
characterized by simbolism, romanticism and
existentialism. The Soviet occupation
undermined the creativity of writers, many of
whom fled to the west and wrote in secret.

7. He wrote the book Dievų
miškas (Forest of the Gods).
It describes the life in a
concentration camp.
Balys Sruoga

8. Bronius Krivickas
He was a poet and
partisan. He was
killed in 1952 in a
battle, expected
future historians to
ponder how tiny
Lithuania “did not
fall but managed to
struggle hard and
long”.

9. She was a poet and partisan
of Lithuania. She fought for
freedom and also she was a
good poet who wrote
beautiful poems about the
freedom of Lithuania.
Diana Glemžaitė

10. Our Way to Freedom in
Films
The 1966 film Nobody Wanted to Die (Niekas
nenorėjo mirti) by Vytautas Žalakevičius. This film
shows the tragedy of the conflict in which “a
brother goes against the brother”.

11. The 2005 film Forest of the Gods directed by Algimantas
Puipa, based on the Balys Sruoga noverl of the same
name. It is a story about one man an artist and an
intellectual who was imprisoned by two brutual regimes,
the Nazis and the Soviets.

12. Our Way to Freedom in
Art
The Road of the Freedom is a sculpture commemorating the
twentieth anniversary of the resoration of the State of
Lithuania in Vilnius. The sculpture is symbolic of the live
chain of people who, more than 20 years ago, joined hands
and connected the three Baltic States.

13. Chapel for partisans in Kaisiadorys cemetery is one of
modern creations of Independent Lithuania, when it was
a normal thing to honour there, who were fighting for
freedom (it was vice versa in Soviet times). Chapel was
built in 1993 - 1998.

14. The Monument Angel
built in Rokiškis in
2003
The monument to
Tauras county
partisans in
Marijampolė

15. Our Way to Freedom in
Music
Rock March – was a rock
music festival, organized
in various cities
of Lithuania. It was held
in 1987, 1988, 1989,
updated in 1996 and
1997. Early festivals
shared the Sąjūdis
ideology, and openly
supported the Lithuanian
independence movement.
Later festivals encouraged
participation in public life.

16. Antis is a Lithuanian postmodernist rock band. The name is
the Lithuanian word for "duck" and is also slang for a
false mass media sensation. Antis was a politically motivated
band that played proscribed music in several styles
including ska. They also wrote their own songs with jaunty
horns and witty ironic lyrics.