Petras Cidzikas
Petras Cidzikas (born April 25, 1944 in Šeštokai , Wolost Krosna (today Lazdijai Rajongemeinde ), Marijampolė district ; † January 21, 2019 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian dissident .
Life
From 1961 to 1963 Petras Cidzikas graduated from the 2nd building school in Kaunas , and in 1968 a middle school in Kaunas. From 1971 he studied law at Vilnius University in the Lithuanian capital . In 1973 he was arrested by the KGB on February 16 , the day Lithuania declared independence , and later sentenced. He was imprisoned for four years in a special psychiatric prison in Chernyakhovsk in Russia 's Kaliningrad Oblast . He was later arrested several times, sentenced twice, and persecuted. In 1987, alongside Nijolė Sadūnaitė , Vytautas Bogušis and Antanas Terleckas, he co-organized a protest against the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , which took place at the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Vilnius Old Town .
From 1988 to 1990 Cidzikas organized a 50-day fasting campaign for the release of political prisoners, for the rebirth of Lithuania and the "liberation of Lithuania Minor ". From September to October 1990 he organized a march to Moscow . Accompanied by others, he carried a 2.5-meter-high cross with Lithuanian flags through Russian cities and parishes to a church in Moscow near the KGB headquarters in Lubyanka . With this action he also inspired the Russian freedom movement. He also organized a two-day march in Vilnius around the local KGB building.
From 2007, Cidzikas received a state pension (1st stage).
Awards
- 1998: Vytis Cross
- 2000: Medal of Lithuanian Independence (Lietuvos nepriklausomybės medalis)
- 2003: Commemorative medal on the occasion of Lithuania's accession to NATO (Atminimo ženklas Lietuvos Respublikos pakvietimo į NATO proga)
literature
- Vytautas Kaltenis: Petras Cidzikas. In: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija , Volume IV. Mokslo ir enciklopedijų Leidybos institutas, Vilnius, 2003, p. 122
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beatričė Laurinavičienė: Mirė Lietuvos patriotas, disidentas ir rezistentas. In: Verslo žinios . January 21, 2019, accessed January 21, 2019 (Lithuanian).
- ↑ Testament Petras Cidzikas
- ↑ The persecution of Petras Cidzikas. In: LKB Kronika (Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania), March 47, 19, 1981, accessed on January 21, 2019 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cidzikas, Petras |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Šeštokai , Wolost Krosna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2019 |
| Place of death | Vilnius |