Word: vilnius
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...turning point, in fact, came not in August but in January of1991, when Soviet tanks moved into Vilnius in a bloody but unsuccessful effort to crush the Lithuanian independence movement. There I saw soldiers take over the country's main TV tower, waving to us as they raced to the building. I watched a tank effortlessly flatten a heavy truck that had been pulled across the road to block its path, and stared at the dead bodies of young people who a few hours earlier had been dancing in an improvised disco at the foot of the TV tower. After...
CONVICTED. KAZYS GIM-ZAUSKAS, 93, former member of the Lithuanian security police that cooperated with the Nazis during World War II, of genocide for his role in handing over Jews to German death squads; in Vilnius,Lithuania. Gimzauskas, a former U.S. citizen who was deputy head of the Vilnius police, was not sentenced as he had been tried in absentia due to ill health. His conviction is the first time that a Lithuanian court has confirmed that its own police forces collaborated in the Final Solution, in which 90% of Lithuania's Jewish population died...