Talk:Romas Kalanta

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[edit] Lithuanian POV

Kalanta is clearly an important figure in Lithuanian history, but I'm not sure about all of the claims in this article. I have cleaned it up the best that I can. All of the resources that I can find seem to be from a Lithuanian point of view, so NPOV is naturally a concern. --timc | Talk 17:19, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I am not sure what other point of view there could be - he is a hero of Lithuania, however he is not enough of "antihero" for Russians to make their own stories about him, after all Soviet Union was much larger than Lithuania and consisted of many territories, therefore his suicide affected only a small part of the union. Also, there is no way to tell the story otherwise, as it is told how it happened, with facts mostly.

The official Soviet version at the time told to his parents and such was that Romas Kalanta was insane - but this was not strange, at the time people who opposed idea of communism were all considered insane and put to mental hospitals if they did something more than just believing, for example publicising their words publicly or disrupting something or such. However I doubt even the clever Russians would think now that he was really insane, he was an ordinary student before and such. Because it would have required lots of unnecessary info about putting patriots into mental hospitals at the time and such, which would be more related to Soviet Union in general, rather than Romas Kalanta, I decided to avoid talkng about that.

User:DeirYassin 14:20, 29 November 2004