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The economic blockade of the Lithuanian SSR, who wanted to secede from the Soviet Union, had one goal: to prove the Lithuanians that without Moscow they can not survive. However, it only fueled separatist forces in Lithuania, which, despite difficulties, continued its activities aimed at the separation.

Around eager the explosions of shells, bullets and shrapnel. Tanks rush forward, behind them, hiding behind the armor, there comes the infantry, and in the sky beats of the air force. During the battle, the life expectancy on the battlefield is measured in minutes and seconds, is all about the case of someone still alive, having passed through the fire and flames, and someone dies from a stray shot.

"Freedom comes naked, throwing flowers heart", perhaps these lines of Velimir Khlebnikov was inspired by the sculptor Nikolai Andreev, the author of the monument of Freedom, which was opened in 1919. The monument, depicting Liberty in the form of women half-dressed, ambiguously perceived by his contemporaries, and was destroyed a few months before the beginning of the great Patriotic war. About the reasons for the demolition of the monument to the Soviet (now Tver) square is still under debate.

The Soviet government already in 20 years have embarked on an intensified centralization of government. This was done not only by officials but also by the intense mutual penetration of culture: press, literature, radio. Was not the tendency to spread everywhere Russian language. On the contrary, throughout the existence of the USSR was carried out huge work on the development of local languages. Russian was common, owning them, you could get a good education, a career, to have access to the vast cultural heritage; in Russian were published in the Central press.

There's a whole genre of books about the Second world war, which you can combine according to the name of one of them – "Fateful decision of the Wehrmacht". But, unfortunately, not only the enemy command made a fatal miscalculation. The Soviet commanders they were also. Because of that war and adopted in the first half of the year, this unfavorable turn for the Soviet Union, and the enemy had to step away from the final victory.