Gentvilas: Prunskienė’s merits for Lithuania’s independence are immense, but the flirtation with the Kremlin cast a shadow

Gentvilas: Prunskienė's merits for Lithuania's independence are immense, but the flirtation with the Kremlin cast a shadow

E. Gentvilas highlighted three stages of K. Prunskienė’s political career.

“I would distinguish three stages. The first is a deputy of the Soviet Union people’s deputies, who prepared the strategy for Lithuania’s economic independence. I think this was a significant contribution on the scale of Lithuania and the Baltic countries.

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The second thing – the prime minister, who was most memorable to the Lithuanian people. It must be said that she was a very ambitious, very creative person, but she very quickly realized the value of attention and began to compete with Vytautas Landsbergis, which on a personal level would not have been a bad thing.

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