The citizens of Lithuania liberated themselves from the Soviet-government by conquering the television and radio channel in Vilnius . This battle took eleven lives from the Lithuanian side.

The Lithuanians had lost an interesting part of their culture and tradition, which they are trying to revive. Their culture dates back to the Mesolithic Nemunas culture and the Mesolithic Kunda culture (7th-4th millennia BC). We call this period the Mesolithic period. Many centuries later the culture was respectively influenced by the Romans, the Vikings, the Slaves, Christianity (the Roman Catholic Church) and later by the Polish, the Russians and the Soviets.