accept a Soviet garrison, President Antanas Smetona fled the country leaving Merkys as acting president. Merkys ostensibly cooperated with the Soviets...
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Antanas Smetona (Lithuanian: [ɐnˈtǎːnɐs sʲmʲɛtoːˈnɐ] ; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician who served...
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theologian, and poet Antanas Mackevičius (1828–1863), Lithuanian priest and an initiator and leader of the 1863 January Uprising Antanas Merkys (1887–1955), Lithuanian...
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Soviet Union entered Lithuania, prompting President Antanas Smetona to flee the country. Antanas Merkys, who assumed the position of acting president in...
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various German financial institutions. According to Klaipėda Governoe Antanas Merkys (1927–1932), the deteriorating situation of the region was dangerous...
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1930s. After President Antanas Smetona fled to the US when the Soviet Union occupied the country, Prime Minister Antanas Merkys became acting president...
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of President was established on 4 April 1919. Chairman of the Presidium Antanas Smetona was elected as First President of the State of Lithuania by the...
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a commissioner of the Lithuanian government. The first of these was Antanas Merkys, who spoke Polish well and made some conciliatory decisions toward Poles...
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and served in the Romanian Front where he became close friends with Antanas Merkys. This relationship proved crucial in Vitkauskas' career. He returned...
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Aleksandras Stulginskis, Acting President (1926) Antanas Smetona, President (1926–1940) Antanas Merkys, de facto acting president (1940) Justas Paleckis...
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