Išorės faktorius vidaus politikoje

ENIn this article the author tries to demonstrate that big countries, using their great resources, have a possibility to influence the internal policy of small neighboring countries. That is what happened in between-war period. The USSR not only fully financed the Lithuanian Communist Party but also financially supported some other parties including even the most right-wing party - the Folk Party. During 1924-1926 the newspapers of this party „Tautos Vairas" and „Lietuvis" received ca. 200 USD every month from Moscow. We can not consider this deal only as a simple international corruption. The deal was not made only for earning money. Political motives were the most important here, namely the common interest in the foreign policy of the Folk Party and the USSR. Due to the fact that Poland occupied Vilnius the Lithuanian-Polish conflict inevitably started. The Folk Party thought that only the Soviets could help to get Vilnius back and to protect Lithuania from Polish aggression. The Soviets on the other hand promised help, but at the same time instigated Lithuanian-Polish conflict, which was useful for them because it hindered to establish the alliance between the Baltic States and Poland. In future this alliance could stop the expansion of the USSR to the West.The Soviets supported the Folk Party because they wanted this party to rule Lithuania and conquer probably the strongest party, Christian-Democrats, to come to the power. The Christian-Democrats were more oriented towards Western countries but not to the USSR or Germany. The facts analyzed in this article show that foreign relations have some regional specificity. Big countries can influence the policy of smaller countries and especially neighboring ones. As long as the secret services have a possibility to work uncontrolled and the foreign relation policy is secret the development of democracy is doubtful. The progress of democracy inside a state is impossible if the interests of big states, or simply „racist" methods dominate in foreign relations.