Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublikacode: lt is deprecated (Lithuanian)
Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республикаcode: ru is deprecated (Russian)
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika (Lithuanian); Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика (Russian)
1940–1941; 1944–1990/1991
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Status	Unrecognized Soviet Socialist Republic; (1940–1941, 1944–1990/1991); De facto sovereign entity (1990–1991)
Capital	Vilnius
Common languages	Lithuanian, Russian
Demonym(s)	Lithuanian; Soviet
Government	Stalinist one-party totalitarian dictatorship (1940–1953); Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party Soviet-style socialist republic (1953–1989); Unitary parliamentary republic (1989–1991)
First Secretary
• 1940–1974	Antanas Sniečkus
• 1974–1987	Petras Griškevičius
• 1987–1988	Ringaudas Songaila
• 1988–1990	Algirdas Brazauskas
Chairman of the Supreme Council
• 1990–1991	Vytautas Landsbergis
Legislature	Supreme Soviet
Historical era	World War II · Cold War
• Soviet occupation	16 June 1940
•	21 July 1940
• Illegally annexed by USSR, Lithuania continued de jure	3 August 1940
• Nazi occupation	June 1941
• Soviet re-occupation; SSR re-established	September–November 1944
• Singing Revolution	1988
• Sovereignty declared	18 May 1989
•	11 March 1990
• Independence recognised by the State Council of the Soviet Union	6 September 1991
Area
1989	65,200 km2 (25,200 sq mi)
Population
• 1989	3,689,779
Currency	Soviet rouble (Rbl) (SUR)
Calling code	7 012
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Lithuania
Lithuania
Today part of	Lithuania

The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic was a Soviet socialist republic from 1940-1941 and 1944–1989. It is today part of Lithuania.

Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Media

Tautiška giesme instumental
Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Instrumental)
Stamp with overprint, 1940
Members of the People's Seimas meeting with soldiers of the Lithuanian People's Army in July 1940
The Lithuanian Teachers' Congress in 1940, which in protest sang the Tautiška giesmė
The Lithuanian insurgents (Lithuanian Activist Front) and soldiers in Cathedral Square in Vilnius. Lithuania was briefly liberated from the Soviet occupation during the June Uprising in 1941, but was soon occupied by Germany.
Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance fighters
Lithuanian political prisoner Onutė Milušauskaitė (arrested in 1945 as a messenger of the Lithuanian partisans) by the grave of her daughter in Ust-Omchug
KGB's execution room where prisoners were killed and later buried in mass graves outside Vilnius, now the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights
Massive meeting at Vingis Park on 23 August 1988