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THE STATE ANTHEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | Tautiska giesme (The National Song), is also the Lithuanian national anthem. |
 | | Following Lithuania's annexation by the Soviet Union, it was banned, yet in 1944 it was proclaimed the anthem of the Lithuanian SSR (until 1950). |
 | | During the years of occupation, people were persecuted for singing the Tautiska giesme (on some occasions, even when it was the official anthem of the Lithuanian SSR). |
| www.ltn.lv /~maaris/ltemb/himna.htm (137 words) |
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