History Communism started to soften already in the mid-80:s and the border states started to take increasingly greater liberties. Vytautas Landsbergis applied for Lithuania’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet law stated that the republics were allowed to renounce membership. But because of all the anti-Soviet undercurrents, this paragraph was about to be scrapped. Landsbergis handed in his application a mere two hours before the paragraph was scrapped, and had it approved, in accordance with the law.   Short-short Late-late History These are my own pictures of Lithuania’s fast and cruel history, various memorials, and some reflections on what happened afterwards.   My Own Beginning in Lithuania It all began for me in 1992, when I got the seemingly crazy idea of going to the isolated Baltics, a place we had only heard about in the weather reports.