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Alfonsas Danys, the Glossary

Alfonsas Danys (16 September 1924 – 2014) was a Lithuanian writer known for satire works, detective fiction and novels about a rural life, Interwar, World War II and the Soviet Lithuania.^[1]

30 relations: Aftermath of World War II, Šluota, Collective farming, Communism, Guerrilla war in the Baltic states, Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Interwar period, Kolkhoz, Lithuania, Lithuanian language, Lithuanian National Revival, Lithuanian partisans, Lithuanian Riflemen's Union, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Military occupations by the Soviet Union, Nazism, Patriotism, Pergalė, Post-war, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Rokiškis, Rokiškis District Municipality, Soviet people, Soviet Union, Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, The Holocaust in Lithuania, Vilnius, Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy, World War II.
Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences alumni
Lithuanian male writers
Lithuanian novelists
People from Rokiškis

Aftermath of World War II

The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US).

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Šluota

Šluota (literally "broom") was a Lithuanian satire and humour magazine which was published, with hiatuses, from 1934 to 2004.

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Collective farming

Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise".

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Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Guerrilla war in the Baltic states

The guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an insurgency waged by Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian) partisans against the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1956.

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Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Before the perestroika Soviet era reforms of Gorbachev that promoted a more liberal form of socialism, the formal ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Marxism–Leninism, a form of socialism consisting of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state that aimed to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Interwar period

In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).

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Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is an East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Lithuanian National Revival

The Lithuanian National Revival, alternatively the Lithuanian National Awakening or Lithuanian nationalism (Lietuvių tautinis atgimimas), was a period of the history of Lithuania in the 19th century, when a major part of Lithuanian-inhabited areas belonged to the Russian Empire (the Russian partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth).

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Lithuanian partisans

Lithuanian partisans were partisans who waged guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953.

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Lithuanian Riflemen's Union

The Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (LRU, Lietuvos šaulių sąjunga), also referred to as Šauliai (the Riflemen; from šaulys for rifleman), is a paramilitary non-profit organization supported by the Government of Lithuania, active in three main areas: military training, sport, and culture, but this differs between peace and wartime.

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The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Lithuania or simply Lithuania, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990.

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Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas, LSMU) is a medical school in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Military occupations by the Soviet Union

During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Patriotism

Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.

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Pergalė

Pergalė (meaning Victory in English) was a literary magazine in Soviet Lithuania issued between 1942 and 1990.

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Post-war

A post-war or postwar period is the interval immediately following the end of a war.

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Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Prezidium Verkhovnogo Soveta) was the standing body of the highest body of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

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Rokiškis

Rokiškis is a city in northeastern Lithuania with a population of about 14,400.

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Rokiškis District Municipality

Rokiškis District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania.

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Soviet people

The Soviet people (sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (r) was, from 1936 to 1991, the highest body of state authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and based on the principle of unified power was the only branch of government in the Soviet state.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonsas_Danys