On Friday morning, all residents of Lithuania are invited to take part within the civic motion “Reminiscence is alive as a result of it bears witness”, lighting candles within the home windows of buildings and thus honoring the reminiscence of the defenders of freedom.
On Friday morning, the Seimas scheduled a civics lesson “January thirteenth by the eyes of the signatories”, adopted by a ceremonial line-up of Defenders of Freedom within the Lithuanian Freedom Defenders Gallery of the Seimas. At midday, there will probably be a gathering of Defenders of Freedom.
President Gitanas Nausėda will even participate within the citizenship lesson and light-weight a candle with college students at Vilnius Simon Daukantas Gymnasium.
Within the night, a live performance will probably be held for the general public within the Lithuanian Freedom Defenders and Stained Glass galleries of the Seimas. John’s Church.
On Friday night, the place of loss of life of Artūras Sakalauskas, the soldier volunteer who defended the Parliament, will probably be honored with flowers.
Commemorative bonfires will probably be lit in Independence Sq., the place the Hour of Motion is scheduled, as yearly. They will even burn close to the Vilnius TV tower and close to the Lithuanian Nationwide Radio and Tv constructing.
On the eve of Defenders of Freedom Day, occasions are deliberate all through the nation.
In Kaunas, the troopers of Colonel Juozas Vitkaus’ engineering battalion will participate in a four-kilometer tribute run devoted to the reminiscence of the victims of the occasions of January 13, 1991. 14 altars will probably be lit on the trail from the statue of “Liberty” to the Everlasting Hearth-Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, patriotic poems and music will probably be performed within the backyard of the Vytautas Nice Battle Museum.
Within the Kaunas VI Fort of the Vytautas the Nice Battle Museum, the pledges and oath of the younger shooters of the 2nd nationwide crew of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union Vytautas the Nice will probably be heard.
In Šiauliai, the morning will start with the worldwide civic initiative “Mild of Freedom”. Within the night, St. Mass for the fallen defenders of freedom, and within the night within the sq. close to Šiauliai metropolis municipality, a festive occasion of the Defenders of Freedom Day will probably be held and commemorative bonfires will probably be lit. Through the occasion, patriotic songs will probably be performed, residents and visitors of town will probably be invited to recollect and honor the fighters who died for the nation’s freedom in 1991.
A memorial bonfire will even be lit in Klaipėda on Friday night, and a conventional run is deliberate. The beginning of the eight-kilometer distance will happen from the Giruliai TV tower. A brief distance of three kilometers from the Summer season live performance stage. The end line is scheduled on the municipality of Klaipėda.
January thirteenth is widely known in Lithuania as Defenders of Freedom Day, honoring those that died on January thirteenth, 1991 through the aggression of the Soviet military in Vilnius. At the moment, the Soviets tried to overthrow the reliable authorities of Lithuania, which declared the nation’s independence from the USSR on March 11, 1990, by army power.
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