The Dead want to come home: stories about the repatriation of Siberian deportee remains to Lithuania

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Pasakojimas; Tremtiniai; Repatriacija; Sovietinis laikotarpis; Deportees; Repatriation; Storytelling; Soviet period.

ENIn Lithuania, the years 1988-1990 saw the emergence of a political process that involved both recognition of Soviet occupation of the country and the determination to restore Lithuania's independence. Amid many important political and legal steps was the rehabilitation of hundreds of thousands of deportees and political prisoners who had been victims of Soviet violent policies and acts of terror. It was finally possible to speak openly about those who had died in the gulags and in deportation in Siberia, and also to travel to former deportation locations and visit loved ones' graves. Relatives of people who died and were buried while in deportation began travelling to Siberia to exhume and repatriate the remains of the dead. [Extract, p. 52]