Justas Paleckis
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Justas Paleckis was a Lithuanian Soviet author, journalist, and politician. He was the nominal acting president of Lithuania after the Soviet invasion while Lithuania was still ostensibly independent,
Paleckis in 1961
Antanas Merkys
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Antanas Merkys was the last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania, serving from November 1939 to June 1940. When the Soviet Union presented an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding that it accept a Sovie
Justas Paleckis
…Communist Party from the mid-1930s. When the Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania in 1940, President Antanas Smetona instructed Prime Minister Antanas Merkys to deputize for him as President and he and his family fled to Germany, later to Switzerland, and then the USA. Merkys became acting president. A day…
Antanas Merkys
A. Merkys in 1921