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The Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park is a unique place that brings together two quite different epochs – the glorious past and the traces of the crimes committed there. Tuskulėnai Manor, established there in the 16th century, had a royal status. Until the mid-19th century the magnificent Classicism-style manor house was one of the popular cultural sites in Vilnius. However, in the 20th century the pages of the history changed. The persons, sentenced to death by the USSR tribunal, who had been tortured and murdered in the NKGB (MGB) inner prison in Vilnius, were secretly put to the mass graves there between 1944 and 1947. The occupying Soviet authorities charged the majority of them with the treason against homeland and imposed a death sentence under Article 58 of the Penal Code of the RSFSR. Over the period, mentioned above, 767 persons were executed.

The Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park is a division of Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights under Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. The memorial focuses on collecting, researching and publicly presenting the historical-documentary material, corresponding the conception of expositions „Project – HOMO SOVIETICUS“ and „The Secrets of Tuskulėnai Manor“. The accumulated museum values and knowledge have been adapted and presented to the contemporary information society in order to reveal the efforts of the Soviet totalitarian and authoritarian regimes to create a new social, cultural and political environment.  

The Memorial Complex of Tuskulėnai Peace Park ensures the maintenance of the Chapel-Columbarium as well as its availability for visitors. It also organises exhibitions, commemorations, discussions, presentations of books, films, exhibitions, etc. The Memorial Complex organizes and presents projects of cultural education, enhancing the knowledge demand in cultural, educational, historical and art domains, thus contributing in fostering society’s patriotic and civic responsibility.

The material was compiled by Tomaš Božerocki and Rafal Marcinkevič in cooperation with the employees of Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (Ramunė Driaučiūnaitė, Viktoras Avgulis, Aistė Pranskūnienė, Agnė Šniaukštaitė-Beinorienė, Dovilė Lauraitienė, Ilona Ewa Lewandowska). The video features excerpts from newsreels from the Lithuanian Central State Archives and material from the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights.

The voice-over was provided by public enterprise "Ketvirta Versija". The text is narrated by Rimas Užgiris.

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