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Lithuanian People's Army
The Lithuanian People's Army ( lt, Lietuvos liaudies kariuomenė) were short-lived armed forces of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in June 1940. The army was formed by the Act of 3 July 1940 of the People's Government of Lithuania and replaced the Lithuanian Armed Forces of independent Lithuania. According to data from 1 June 1940, the army had 28,115 persons – 26,084 soldiers (of which 1,728 were officers), 2,031 civil servants, and with the announcement of the mobilization it was possible to call 120,400 reserve troops. The army existed until 30 August 1940 before being transformed into the 29th Rifle Corps of the Red Army. Many Lithuanian soldiers and officers were repressed by arrests or executions for their anti-Soviet attitude. History Dismissal and arrests of officers Following the occupation of Lithuania on 15 June 1940, the army was still formally headed by the Minister of National Defense and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unit Of The Lithuanian People's Army Meeting With Members Of The People's Seimas In 1940
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established in January 1918. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Starting in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikas Rėklaitis
Mikas Rėklaitis (6 September 1895 – 31 March 1976) was a Lithuanian people, Lithuanian division general. He was chief of supply of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Personal life Simonas, the father of Rėklaitis, was married with Teofilė and had nine children—five sons and four daughters. Simonas Rėklaitis told his children the history of his family even from the seventeenth century. According to his father, the Rėklaičiai family came from free peasants and never went to corvée. His parents were educated people, thus all their children graduated from studies. Three of them (Vladas Rėklaitis, Antanas Rėklaitis, and Mikas) became Officer (armed forces), officers. Mikas Rėklaitis brothers colonel Antanas Rėklaitis and colonel Vladas Rėklaitis also served in the Lithuanian Armed Forces. All three brothers were arrested by the Soviet people, Soviets, following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania (1940), Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940; however, they were later liberat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klemensas Popeliučka
Klemensas Popeliučka (29 June 1892 – 25 October 1948) was a Lithuanian brigadier general, teacher. He was Chief of Military Equipment Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces from 1929 to 1940. Popeliučka, being a highly educated and broad-profile expert in military technology, largely contributed in creating the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Moreover, he was known for his devotion to his homeland, attached to his family, not consuming alcohol. Early years Popeliučka was born in Bučiūnai village, Pašvitinys County, Russian Empire. In 1912, he graduated from the Šiauliai Gymnasium. Since 1912 Popeliučka studied at the Department of Transportation of the Kyiv Institute of Technology. In 1913 he was mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army, participated in World War I, and was wounded in action. For his bravery on the front, he was awarded the Cross of St. George. In 1916, he graduated from the Petrograd School of Military Engineering. Interwar Lithuania After returning to Lith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladas Nagevičius
Vladas Nagevičius-Nagius (17 June 1880 – 15 September 1954) was a Lithuanian people, Lithuanian brigadier general, physician, archaeologist, museologist. He is the founder of the Vytautas the Great War Museum. Early years Nagevičius was born in Kretinga, then part of the Russian Empire, on 17 June 1880. He was born in a family of a Lithuanian nobility, Samogitian noble who worked as a customs officer. His mother Marija Magdalena Eitavičiūtė owned a bookstore in Kretinga. Two sisters of Nagevičius died as children. His father died soon after he was born. After receiving his primary education in Kretinga, Nagevičius studied at Palanga Progymnasium, but was expelled for refusing to participate in Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church prayers. He continued his studies at the , where he became involved in Lithuanian activities through Kipras Bielinis. He graduated from the in 1904 and became one of the first professional Lithuanian archaeologists. He participated in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladas Mieželis
Vladas Mieželis (November 27, 1894 – June 4, 1986) was a Lithuanian brigadier general, lawyer, military judge of the Supreme Tribunal of Lithuania, and Chairman of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Court. Early years Mieželis was born on November 27, 1894, in Jakštai, Daugailiai County, Russian Empire. His parents were farmers. He graduated from A. Lebedev's Private Gymnasium in Moscow. In 1916 Mieželis began studying at Moscow University, but was mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army. In 1917 after graduating from Alexander II's War School in Moscow, he fought on the front. In 1918 he was demobilized and lived in Kyiv. In 1919 he was mobilized as an officer into the Red Army. He served on the Southern and Caucasus fronts and in the Reserve Army. In 1921 he was an inspector of the Eleventh Army, Assistant Commander of the Territorial Brigade of the Azerbaijani Red Army. On June 6, 1921, he became ill with cholera. Interwar Lithuania In November 1921 Mieželis illegally r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvardas Adamkavičius
Edvardas Adamkavičius (March 31, 1888 – May 10, 1957) was a Lithuanian general. Early life He was born in Pikeliai, Telšiai County, Lithuania. Interwar Lithuanian Army He enlisted in the Lithuanian Army in 1918. He was made a lieutenant general on September 6, 1933, a brigadier general in 1936 and a divisional general on February 16, 1937. He retired in 1940. Occupation and emigration After the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he fled to Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1949. He died in Worcester, Massachusetts. Family He was the uncle of future President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus. Bibliography *Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija The ''Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija'' or VLE (translation ''Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia'') is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014. V ..., Bd. 1, S. 73. References 1888 births 1957 dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justas Paleckis
Justas Paleckis ( – 26 January 1980) was a Lithuanian author, journalist and politician. He was nominal acting president of Lithuania after the Soviet invasion while Lithuania was still ostensibly independent, in office from 17 June to 3 August 1940. He then remained as the nominal head of state of the Lithuanian SSR until 1967. Life and career Paleckis was born in Telšiai in 1899 in to the family of a blacksmith of noble origin. In 1926–1927, he was a director of the Lithuanian official news agency, ELTA. He later voiced opposition to the ruling elite in Lithuania; in this way, he became a suitable candidate for the Lithuanian communists (subordinate to Soviet envoy Vladimir Dekanozov) to become the puppet leader of Lithuania in the Soviets' planned takeover of the country in 1940. Paleckis had connections to the Lithuanian Communist Party from the early 1930s. After President Antanas Smetona fled to the US when the Soviet Union occupied the country, Prime Minister Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Dekanozov
Vladimir Georgievich Dekanozov (russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Декано́зов; born Ivan Vasilyevich Protopopov; June 1898 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet senior state security operative and diplomat. Biography Early life According to the official biography, Vladimir Dekanozov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to the family of Giorgi Dekanozishvili, founder of the Party of Georgian Social-Federalists.Merab Vachnadze, Vakhtang Guruli, Mikheil Bakhtadze, History of Georgia; Artanuji 2004, page 112. Dekanozishvili, in Georgian meaning ''Son of a Deacon'', was said to have been a noble Georgian family belonging to the Georgian Orthodox Church. Although he self-identified as a Georgian, some rumors falsely suggested that he might have Armenian heritage due to his russified name.Dekanozov Vladimir Georgievich [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Of Defence (Lithuania)
Chief of Defence of the Republic of Lithuania is Chief of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and the national defence organisations. List of Chiefs Army Commanders (1919–1940) Chiefs of Defence (1993–present) See also * Lithuanian Armed Forces References {{Chief of military by country Military of Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ... Lists of Lithuanian military personnel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of National Defence (Lithuania)
The Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublikos krašto apsaugos ministerija) was established in 1990. Its mission, according to its website, consists of: "Implementation of joint policy with NATO, cooperation with foreign countries in defence sector, representation of Lithuania by coordination of international humanitarian law, management of national defence and security financial resources, army provision with armament, equipment and other resources, implementation of personnel management policy, preparation of military reserve, administration of compulsory military draft, preparation of society for civil resistance, planning national mobilisation." Ministers References External links * Lithuania National Defence National security, or national defence, is the security and Defence (military), defence of a sovereign state, including its Citizenship, citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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