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    Vytautas Landsbergis

    Lithuanian politician and musicologist

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  1. Vytautas Landsbergis (Lithuanian: [ˈvʲîːtɐʊtɐs ˈɫɐ̂ˑnʲdzʲbʲɛrʲɡʲɪs] ⓘ; born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He was the first Speaker of Reconstituent Seimas of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union.

    • Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė
    • Algirdas Brazauskas (as the Speaker of the Seimas and acting President of Lithuania)
  2. 2 days ago · Vytautas Landsbergis, a professor of music, became chairman of Sajudis. It quickly became a mass movement, organizing a number of large demonstrations during 1988 and 1989. In February 1989, Sajudis declared the Soviet occupation illegal and formally proclaimed its goal of restoring independence.

  3. Nov 27, 2023 · Vytautas Landsbergis, the Pianist Who Helped to Sink the Soviet Union | The Brenthurst Foundation. News. Vytautas Landsbergis, the Pianist Who Helped to Sink the Soviet Union. Vytautas Landsbergis shrugs when asked why he went into politics. ‘It was a normal evolution since we were part of the developments.

  4. Jan 23, 2024 · Vytautas Landsbergis: The End of the Soviet Union | George W. Bush Presidential Center. Back to all interviews. Freedom Collection. Interviews with Vytautas Landsbergis. Interviewed January 23, 2024. Breaking with Moscow. “Sajudis was for independence now. And so the people voted for Sajudis.” The Restoration of Lithuanian Independence.

  5. Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis (10 March 1893 – 21 May 1993) was a Lithuanian architect most active in interwar Lithuania (1926–1939). He was the father of Vytautas Landsbergis, the first Lithuanian head of state after independence from the Soviet Union . Landsbergis's father, the playwright Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, was an active ...

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  7. Mar 2, 2010 · Its first postcommunist head of state, Vytautas Landsbergis, says there is little consensus in Central and Eastern European countries on dealing with Soviet-era crimes. Landsbergis, who is...

  8. Vytautas Landsbergis, a musicologist by training, emerged as a political leader in Lithuania in the fall of 1988. One of the founding members of the Movement for Perestroika in Lithuania, better known as Sajudis, he quickly became one of the Sajudis Initiative Group's most prominent public spokespersons. In the fall of 1988 he became Sajudis's ...

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