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Juozas Baltušis

Died in 1991

Juozas Baltušis, whose real name was Albertas Juozėnas, was born on 14 April 1909 in Riga. Having come to Lithuania in 1918 and worked as a farmhand at Puponys, he moved to Kaunas in 1929, worked in printing houses and educated himself, encouraged by the writer Boruta. Won over to Soviet power, he headed the radio committee and the review Pergalė, sat for many years in the republic's Supreme Soviet and opposed the Sąjūdis movement. He died in Vilnius on 4 February 1991.

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