Owl Mountain
The war seems about to be over. The war that is only beginning... Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country…
Owl Mountain
The war seems about to be over. The war that is only beginning... Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army. Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. Before the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s gave us the words for it, 'ethnic cleansing' had been practiced on an enormous scale by the Soviet Union. Particularly badly affected was Soviet occupied Lithuania, where between the end of World War II and the final withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1992, some 300,000 men, women and children, were deported, killed or driven into exile. 'Owl Mountain' follows a group of classmates as they come to terms with adulthood, the Soviet occupation and the risk of deportation. As they meet to romance, play and party at Owl Mountain Park, the shadow thrown by the Soviet occupation grows across their lives, and they all must make fateful decisions as to how they will come to terms with living in a country in fear. As the story moves to its conclusion the friends will experience love, sorrow, death, betrayal and deportation. But at the end they will perhaps find hope for a brighter tomorrow. And strength to take part at the historical March to the West and inform the US Congress of the struggle for freedom, which subsequently leads to the Welles Declaration that supported idea for independence alive in the three Baltic States under the Soviet occupation during the long years of the entire Cold War.
Owl Mountain
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The war seems about to be over. The war that is only beginning... Radio Free Europe, BBC, and Voice of America can only rarely get through the Iron Curtain and Soviet mufflers to Lithuania, a country torn by a war between the local resistance movement and the Soviet regime that is forced onto Lithuanian people by bayonets of the Russian army.
Everybody who tries to resist the Soviet rule is either terrorized or executed or exiled to Siberia. Before the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s gave us the words for it, 'ethnic cleansing' had been practiced on an enormous scale by the Soviet Union. Particularly badly affected was Soviet occupied Lithuania, where between the end of World War II and the final withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1992, some 300,000 men, women and children, were deported, killed or driven into exile.
'Owl Mountain' follows a group of classmates as they come to terms with adulthood, the Soviet occupation and the risk of deportation. As they meet to romance, play and party at Owl Mountain Park, the shadow thrown by the Soviet occupation grows across their lives, and they all must make fateful decisions as to how they will come to terms with living in a country in fear. As the story moves to its conclusion the friends will experience love, sorrow, death, betrayal and deportation.
But at the end they will perhaps find hope for a brighter tomorrow. And strength to take part at the historical March to the West and inform the US Congress of the struggle for freedom, which subsequently leads to the Welles Declaration that supported idea for independence alive in the three Baltic States under the Soviet occupation during the long years of the entire Cold War..