Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1918–1919)
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The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) was a short-lived Soviet Puppet state[2] during early Interwar period. It was declared on 16 December 1918 by a provisional revolutionary government led by Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas. It ceased to exist on 27 February 1919, when it was merged with the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia to form the Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Litbel). While efforts were made to represent the LSSR as a product of a socialist revolution supported by local residents, it was largely a Moscow-orchestrated entity created to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War. As a Soviet historian described it as: "The fact that the Government of Soviet Russia recognized a young Soviet Lithuanian Republic unmasked the lie of the USA and British imperialists that Soviet Russia allegedly sought rapacious aims with regard to the Baltic countries."[3] Lithuanians generally did not support Soviet causes and rallied for their own national state, declared independent on 16 February 1918 by the Council of Lithuania.
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
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1918–1919 | |||||||||
Status | Puppet state | ||||||||
Capital | Vilnius | ||||||||
Common languages | Lithuanian · Russian Belarusian · Polish Yiddish[1] | ||||||||
Government | Socialist republic | ||||||||
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Legislature | Provisional revolutionary government (Lithuania) | ||||||||
Historical era | World War I | ||||||||
• Provisional revolutionary government formed | 8 December 1918 | ||||||||
• Republic established | 16 December 1918 | ||||||||
• Recognised by Soviet Russia | 22 December 1918 | ||||||||
• Capture of Vilnius | 5 January 1919 | ||||||||
• Merged with SSR Byelorussia | 27 February 1919 | ||||||||
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