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It was the Lithuanian state that began to emerge in the 13th century, when Prince Mindaugas subdued the lands on which the Lithuanian and Slavic tribes lived and became their leader. Just then, Lithuania began to exercise its own diplomacy and participate in wars, not only defensive, but also aggressive. The new state developed very dynamically: its geographical position and the foreign policy of the rulers contributed to this. In 1316, the great Lithuanian prince became Gediminas, the founder of the dynasty Gediminovichi.

Family ties with Russian princes allowed Gediminas to begin the formation of a federal state, into which part of the Russian lands also entered. But to preserve the identity and independence of a small state was quite difficult, and several centuries passed in a struggle, explicit or implicit, for independence.
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The entangled Polish-Lithuanian political affairs, the interference of Catherine II, the Russian empress, civil strife, insurrection, and sections led to the fact that after the Tadeusz Kosciuszko uprising in 1795, the territory of Lithuania moved to Russia.

After 1863, the policy of the tsarist autocracy in relation to the national suburbs was permeated with great-power chauvinism. At the beginning of the First World War, Germany occupied Lithuania, banned political activity on its territory and in every possible way prevented the reestablishment of Lithuanian statehood. Lithuania was able to return to real independence only after Germany's defeat in World War I.

In 1934 the political union of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was established. But already in 1939 Hitlerite Germany demanded that Lithuania give her the region of Klaipeda. Lithuania was forced to obey. In the same year, a military and political Soviet presence in Lithuania began, which led to Lithuania joining the USSR as a republic.

In 1989, the socio-political movement "Sajudis", which proclaimed its goal, the cultural revival and political independence of Lithuania, achieved that only laws adopted or ratified by the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR began to operate on the territory of the republic. As a consequence of this, the decision of the "National Seimas" of 1940 on Lithuania's accession to the USSR became null and void. Since 1990, the next stage of political and economic independence of this small Baltic state has begun.