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Zemaitis-Vytautas, Jonas

Date of birth:
March 15th, 1909 (Palanga, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire)
Date of death:
November 26th, 1954 (Moscow, Soviet Union)
Nationality:
Lithuanian

Biography

Brigadier General (posthumously) Zemaitis-Vytautas was partisan leader and posthumously fourth president of Lithuania. Murdered by the Stalinist regime.

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Awarded on:
February 14th, 1997

Posthumously awarded
Vycio Kryziaus ordino Didysis kryzius
Nepriklausomybes Medalis (1928)

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