LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas; Bronius Genzelis; LKP; 20 amžius; Lietuvos komunistų partija; Lietuvos persitvarkymo Sąjūdis; SSKP; Sovietų Sąjungos komunistų partija; Algirdas Brazauskas; Bronius Genzelis; CPSU; Communist Party of the Soviet Union; LCP; 20th century; Lithuania's Reform Movement 'Sajūdis'; Lithuanian Restructuring Movement; Lithuanian communist party.
ENAnalyzing our way to independence, we have to consider all the factors that encouraged and impeded it, to figure out how was ruled and what was the country from which we had to get out, abandon the myths and call the phenomena by their real names. First of all: whether the Soviet Union was a communist country. Why, recognizing that the state had collapsed, to the present day we have problems with Russia? In the article, the author analyzes the situation of that time identifying it as a step towards independence. [From the publication]