EP109: Vytautas Landsbergis

The Hated and the Dead - A podcast by Tom Leeman - Sundays

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Vytautas Landsbergis led the modern Lithuanian independence movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Lithuania became the first of the fifteen Soviet Republics to declare independence from Moscow. This was a remarkably plucky move from such a small nation, but it changed the course of world history; two years later, Lithuania was an independent country, and the Soviet Union no longer existed.Thirty years later, Lithuania is once again looking east at a Russia probably intent on swallo...