Who was the leader of a nationalist, right-wing political party in Lithuania, founded in 1924?
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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1926 Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania between 8 and 10 May 1926. The Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union remained the largest party, winning 24 of the 85 seats in the third Seimas. They formed a left-wing coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, which was overthrown in a military coup in December. The Seimas was subsequently disbanded and Lithuanian Nationalist Union leader Antanas Smetona was appointed President.
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Lithuanian Nationalist Union The Lithuanian Nationalist and Republican Union (Lithuanian: "Lietuvių tautininkų sąjunga" , LTS), also known as the Nationalists ("Tautininkai" ), is a nationalist, right-wing political party in Lithuania, founded in 1924 when the Party of National Progress merged with the Lithuanian Farmers' Association. It was the ruling party of Lithuania from the 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état in December 1926 to the Soviet occupation in June 1940. The party was re-established when Lithuania declared independence in 1990.
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Alexander Trishatny Alexander Iosifovich Trishatny (Russian: Александр Иосифович Тришатный ) (1870 — after 1920) — a Russian right wing politician, one of the founders and leaders of the Union of the Russian People ("URP"), a loyalist right-wing nationalist party, the most important among Black-Hundredist monarchist and antisemitic political organizations in the Russian Empire of 1905–1917; Deputy Chairman of URP, member of its first Board and one of the authors of the URP Charter. Concurrently, in 1905 was a leader of URP peripheral branch in Yaroslavl.
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Saliamonas Banaitis Saliamonas Banaitis    (July 15, 1866, Vaitiekupiai, Augustów Governorate – May 4, 1933 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian printer, educator, and banker. He was one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania in 1918.
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Vincas Vitkauskas Vincas Vitkauskas (4 October 1890 – 3 March 1965) was a Lithuanian general. He became commander of the Lithuanian Army after the resignation of Stasys Raštikis in January 1940. In this capacity, Vitkauskas opposed armed resistance to the Soviet occupation in June 1940 and subsequently collaborated with the new Soviet regime.
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Mindaugas Murza Mindaugas Gervaldas (born 16 December 1973), until 2012 known as Mindaugas Murza, is a Lithuanian politician, a radical nationalist former member of the National Democratic Party, former member of the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (a Lithuanian government sponsored paramilitary organization), a one time leader of the National Socialist Party, and member of Šiauliai city municipality council. He is known for his anti-semitic statements.
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Jurijs Rubenis Jurijs Rubenis (April 15, 1925 – March 14, 2004) was a Latvian communist politician. He was born in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR. He was a member of the Communist Party of Latvia. He was the penultimate Chairman of the Council of Ministers (head of government) for the Latvian SSR.
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Gediminas Kirkilas Gediminas Kirkilas ( , born 30 August 1951) is a Lithuanian politician who was Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2006 to 2008. He was confirmed by the Seimas on 4 July 2006 after Zigmantas Balčytis, the provisional Prime Minister, failed to gather the required support from the parliament. He stepped down on 27 November 2008 after the 2008 parliamentary elections, and gave way to Andrius Kubilius to start his term as the prime minister.
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Jewish National Bloc The Jewish National Bloc (Latvian: "Ebreju nacionālais bloks" ) was a political alliance in Latvia in the 1920s. It consisted of Histadruth Hacionith, the Jewish National Democratic Party and Mizrachi.
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Freethinkers' Party The Freethinkers' Party (Greek: Κόμμα των Ελευθεροφρόνων ) was a Greek Nationalist and Monarchist party founded and led by Ioannis Metaxas who was the Prime Minister and dictator of Greece from 1936 to 1941. It was formally founded in November 1922 after the adoption of the party's manifesto that was unveiled on October 13, 1922. Metaxas had the party and all other parties dissolved following the establishment of the 4th of August Regime, in which he ruled as an official independent.
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Vytautas Šustauskas Vytautas Šustauskas (born March 19, 1945) is a controversial Lithuanian politician, leader of the Union of the Fighters for Lithuania ("Kovotojų už Lietuvą sąjunga") political party.
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People's Government of Lithuania The People's Government of Lithuania (Lithuanian: "Liaudies vyriausybė" ) was a puppet cabinet installed by the Soviet Union in Lithuania immediately after Lithuania's acceptance of the Soviet ultimatum of June 14, 1940. The formation of the cabinet was supervised by Vladimir Dekanozov, deputy of Vyacheslav Molotov and a close associate of Lavrentiy Beria, who selected Justas Paleckis as the Prime Minister and acting President. The government was formed on June 17 and, together with the People's Seimas (parliament), transitioned independent Lithuania to a socialist republic and the 14th republic of the Soviet Union thus legitimizing the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. The People's Government was replaced by the Council of People's Commissars of the Lithuanian SSR on August 25. Similar transitional People's Governments were formed in Latvia (Prime Minister Augusts Kirhenšteins supervised by Andrey Vyshinsky) and Estonia (Prime Minister Johannes Vares supervised by Andrei Zhdanov).
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Keturi vėjai Keturi vėjai ("The Four Winds") was a Lithuanian literary movement and literary magazine, active from 1924 to 1928.
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National Socialist Party (Romania) The National Socialist Party (formally Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania; Romanian: "Partidul Național-Socialist din România", PNSR) or Steel Testudo ("Pavăza de Oțel") was a mimetic Nazi political party, active in Romania during the early 1930s. It was led by Colonel Ștefan Tătărescu, the brother of Gheorghe Tătărescu (twice Prime Minister of Romania during that interval), and existed around the newspaper "Crez Nou". One of several far-right factions competing unsuccessfully against the Iron Guard for support, the group made little headway, and existed at times as a satellite of the National-Christian Defense League.
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Mykolas Sleževičius Mykolas Sleževičius (21 February 1882 – 11 November 1939) was a Lithuanian lawyer, political and cultural figure, and journalist. One of the most influential figures in inter-war Lithuania, he served as the prime minister of Lithuania on three occasions. Taking helm of the government at a difficult time in 1918 and again in 1919, Sleževičius has been credited with preparing Lithuania for the fights to come and for laying the foundations of the fledging state.
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Vytautas Landsbergis Professor Vytautas Landsbergis ] (born 18 October 1932) is a Lithuanian conservative politician and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its independence declaration from the Soviet Union, and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament Seimas. Professor Landsbergis is an intellectual who has been active in Lithuania's political arena for more than two decades, and is a notable politician who helped contribute to the demise of the Soviet Union. He has written twenty books on a variety of topics, including a biography of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, as well as works on politics and music. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, and a member of the international advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union The Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sajunga" , LVLS) was a centre-left political party in Lithuania between 1922 and 1936. The party's leaders included the third President Kazys Grinius and three-term Prime Minister Mykolas Sleževičius.
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Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1920 Elections for the Constituent Assembly were held in Lithuania between 14 and 16 April 1920. The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party emerged as the largest party, winning 24 of the 112 seats.
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Voldemārs Zāmuēls Voldemārs Zāmuēls (22 May 1872, Dzērbene parish – 16 January 1948, Ravensburg, Germany) held the office as Prime Minister of Latvia from 27 January 1924 to 18 December, 1924.
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Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga" , LVŽS; also known as Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union, formerly Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union, Lithuanian: "Lietuvos valstiečių liaudininkų sąjunga" , LVLS) is an agrarian political party in Lithuania led by industrial farmer Ramūnas Karbauskis.
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Vilis Krištopans Vilis Krištopans (born June 13, 1954 in Omsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Latvian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Latvia from November 26, 1998 to July 15, 1999.
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Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader. Governing the Soviet Union as its dictator from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies became known as Stalinism.