You can say goodbye on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the funeral home on Olandų street.
History teacher Algis Bitautas, who announced the loss on Facebook, said that after the restoration of Independence, L.Truska was the first to address such “uncomfortable” topics as the evaluations of A.Smetona, the Holocaust, or the guerrilla war.
The most important works: “Antanas Smetona and his times” (1996), “Lithuanians and Jews: from the 19th century until the end of 1941 June: The Evolution of Anti-Semitism” (2005) and others.
He was distinguished by a critical approach to history, raised questions that are probably impossible to raise today, such as “1944-1953 years: what did the partisan war give Lithuania?” and so on.
“During the movement, he was one of the most popular figures who could have easily been a politician, but sacrificed his whole life for history,” A. Bitautas wrote.
L.Truska was born in Petroškai (Veisiejų vlsč.), Lazdijai district. He graduated from Vilnius University in 1959.
In 1959–66, he worked at the Institute of History of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. In 1967–88 he taught at Vilnius University, in 1988–1996 and 2003–12 at Vilnius Pedagogical University, in 1997–2002 at Vytautas the Great University, in 1994–2001 he worked at the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of the Lithuanian Population.
In 1998-2008, he was the executive chairman and sub-commission chairman of the International Commission to Assess the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania.
