Vladas Mironas (22 June 1880 in Kuodiškiai,

Kovno Governorate Kovno Governorate ( rus, Ковенская губеpния, r=Kovenskaya guberniya; lt, Kauno gubernija) or Governorate of Kaunas was a governorate ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was form ...

– 18 February 1953 in Vladimir) was a

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n priest, politician and later

Prime Minister of Lithuania The prime minister of Lithuania ( lt, Ministras Pirmininkas; "Minister-Chairman") is the head of the government of Lithuania. The prime minister is Lithuania's head of government and is appointed by the president with the assent of the Lithua ...

. In 1905, Mironas participated in the Great Vilnius Seimas and, in 1917, the

Vilnius Conference The Vilnius Conference or Vilnius National Conference ( lt, Vilniaus konferencija) met between September 18, 1917 and September 22, 1917, and began the process of establishing a Lithuanian state based on ethnic identity and language that would ...

. He was elected to the

Council of Lithuania The Council of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Taryba, german: Litauischer Staatsrat, pl, Rada Litewska), after July 11, 1918 the State Council of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Valstybės Taryba) was convened at the Vilnius Conference that took place betw ...

and became its second vice-chairman. Later he left politics and worked as a priest. After the coup d'état in 1926, he was elected to the 3rd

Seimas The Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas), or simply the Seimas (), is the unicameral parliament of Lithuania. The Seimas constitutes the legislative branch of government in Lithuania, enacting laws and amendm ...

, and after couple of years again returned to priesthood. 1938 he was offered to become the

representing Lithuanian Nationalists Union. In 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned, being freed a few days later by the Lithuanian Activist Front. Arrested again in 1945, he was forced to collaborate with

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

and worked in Vilnius. As his collaboration with NKVD proved not to be satisfactory, Mironas was arrested yet again in 1947 and subsequently sent to Vladimir Prison, where he died in 1953.

References

* "Mironas, Vladas". Encyclopedia Lituanica III: 545–546. (1970–1978). Ed. Simas Sužiedėlis. Boston, Massachusetts: Juozas Kapočius. LCCN 74-114275. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mironas, Vladas 1880 births 1953 deaths People from Rokiškis District Municipality People from Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd Prime Ministers of Lithuania Members of the Council of Lithuania Lithuanian independence activists 20th-century Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests Lithuanian people of World War II Lithuanian people who died in prison custody Lithuanian people who died in Soviet detention Burials at Rasos Cemetery