As the country commemorated State Restoration Day on Thursday, marking the 105th anniversary since the Lithuanian independence act was signed on February 16, 1918. So this is the first independence day, marking Lithuania’s emergence as a sovereign state from the grips of the Russian Empire, according to the country’s official historiography. Due to drawing the direct connection with the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth, which ceased to exist following the third partition of 1795, the date is therefore considered a restoration of statehood.
The other independence day is March 11, 1990, when Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union which had occupied the country since 1944. That day is known as the restoration of independence, different from restoring a state in 1918. The historical line thus reconnects the thread of independent Lithuania from 1918–1940 to 1990 onward.
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