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- Title
Apie tautą ir valstybę: Vasario 16-osios šviesa.
- Authors
MATULEVIČIENĖ, Parengė Saulė
- Abstract
February 16th is celebrated as Independence Day in Lithuania. In 1918, on February 16th, twenty democratically elected representatives of the people, the intellectuals of the day, published Lithuania's Declaration of Independence. In five years it will be a century since the Lithuanian state was restored. During a conversation with cultural historian Darius KUOLYS and philosopher Vytautas RUBAVIČIUS, the topics considered were some of the ideas that bring us back to February 16th 1918, the day of the Lithuanian Declaration of Independence, the challenges that the Lithuanian state faces today. The interviewees claim that February 16th is the day of the restoration of a free, independent nation, the Lithuanian political community having acquired a huge symbolic existential burden. This is the transformation of an ethno-cultural community into a nation, establishing its own state. Lithuanians who fought in the post-war battles, who opposed Soviet occupation, defended that state. The idea of an independent state comes from ancient Lithuanian history. The Lithuanian language, historical narrative, the uprisings in in 1794, 1831, 1863 and others, witnessed a continuous desire for freedom in Lithuania, but during the Soviet period the ethnic, linguistic, cultural Lithuanian identity was again separated from political, civil "Lithuanianism". The gap between the state and the nation remains wide even today. For the state and the nation, in the face of emerging challenges, it is important to strengthen the historical and cultural memory, expand its symbolic content. February 16th reminds us of the importance of the union of a nation's culture and politics.
- Subjects
INDEPENDENCE Day (Lithuania); FEBRUARY (Month); PHILOSOPHERS; POLITICAL community; LITHUANIAN language; COLLECTIVE memory; KAVOLIS, Vytautas
- Publication
Folk Culture, 2014, Vol 154, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0236-0551
- Publication type
Article