Suvalkų ir Klaipėdos kraštų lietuvių išvietinimas 1941 m. vokiečių perkėlimo iš Estijos, Latvijos ir Lietuvos fone

LTPrisimindami etninių Suvalkų ir Klaipėdos žemių lietuvių išvietinimą ir jų nuosavybės priverstinį konfiskavimą (ekspropriaciją), turime pabrėžti, jog tai buvo nepalyginamai kraupesnių įvykių – dėl SSRS ir Trečiojo Reicho susitarimų – okupacijų preliudija. Kiek straipsnio apimtis leidžia, pabandysime į šiuos įvykius pažvelgti plačiau, palyginti vokiečių vykdytą išvietinimą iš minimų okupuotų teritorijų su savų tautiečių iškeldinimo sąlygomis. Nors šis dviejų valstybių grobuoniškas susitarimas buvo vadinamas ir „gyventojų mainais“, jo taip vertinti negalime. Mums šie „mainai“ yra skaudi, tačiau įsimintina ir pamokanti nusikalstama istorija [p. 204].

ENThe aim of this article is to review, in a popular form based on a comparative method, the events that shook our region 80 years ago in connection with the exodus of the local population, the relocation or exchange of its perpetrators. We will present these events in more detail, revealing their goals and comparing the evictions carried out by the Germans from the above-mentioned occupied territories with the conditions for the eviction of our compatriots. Although this predatory agreement between the USSR and the Third Reich was also called ‘population exchange’, we cannot assess it in this way. For us, this ‘exchange’ is a painful, but memorable and instructive, criminal history of two totalitarian states. The fragile interwar peace in Europe fundamentally changed due to the imperial interests of the leaders of the Bolshevik and National Socialist regimes, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, and the failure of Western democracies to take adequate countermeasures in a timely manner. That discrepancy in methods of operation allowed the temporary Soviet Union and the Third Reich to carry out difficult-tounderstand acts of destruction of Latin civilization. We are thinking not only of trade in the territories of independent states, but also of the extent of the enslavement and destruction of their people and inhabitants. These phenomena include the forced eviction (expulsion) of Lithuanians from Suvalkai and Klaipėda regions (residents of other nationalities were also evicted) from their ethnic territory by the agreement of two occupiers.The eviction of the population of certain nationalities and occupied countries, including the Germans, initiated by the power of A. Hitler and J. V. Stalin caused long-term and unforeseen consequences for its perpetrators, noticeable to this day. In several ways, we depicted the processes of dehumanization that took place in the middle of the twentieth century, which are difficult for the modern generation to understand, and which painfully affected the imperial interests of two totalitarian regimes, the Nazi and the Communist, and our homeland and its people. The ethnos of the Seinai-Punskas region was mechanically dismantled and lost its previous dynamics following long-standing civilizational work. The Germans, being deep-rooted in Latvia and Estonia, irreversibly lost their homelands and civilizational power here. Orthodox and Jews, who had lived here for a long time, were then expelled from Suvalkai. The crimes committed by Stalinist (Communist) and Hitlerian (Nazi) totalitarianisms are, for some reason, still treated differently. And the lessons of painful history (?!) are increasingly becoming hybrid ‘narratives’ of political intrigue.