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You Can't Shoot the Truth

One night in January this year, Soviet troops stormed the Lithuanian television transmitter tower. Disbelieving nationalists stood their ground, shouting 'Fascists! Fascists!' Then the shooting began. Fourteen unarmed civilians were killed, more than 700 injured. Harrowing eyewitness accounts include interviews with the man who carried the body of Loreta, a 23-year-old girl crushed to death by Soviet tanks, and with Liucija, who shared an ambulance with the dying woman, having sustained severe head wounds herself from being rifle-butted. How do they feel about independence now?

English
  • Originally Aired May 12, 1991
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