User:Vertėjas123/Laisvės gynėjų diena (Freedom Fighters day)

The Day of Freedom Fighters - is a Memorial Day of Lithuania celebrated on 13 January. The flag of the State of Lithuania shall be raised.

In 1991, on this day, there was a massive peaceful resistance by Lithuanian citizens to the Soviet leadership to forcibly take the Vilnius Television Tower into their own hands. Attempts to storm the Radio and Television Committee building, Parliament building and other objects of importance for the state coup have been underway since 9 January. a specially trained group of detainees armed with heavy military equipment has arrived to take over.

At a TV tower in Vilnius, over 600 peaceful and unarmed people were injured and 14 were killed. The TV tower was busy, but plans to attack Parliament were abandoned by the military.

Although the seizure of some objects succeeded, the final objectives of the operation (to occupy parliament, to provoke discord among Lithuanian citizens of various nationalities, to present these events as a struggle between two armed sides) were not achieved, and quite soon the Soviet Army had to withdraw from the occupied facilities.