Deportees Gathered in Rumšiškės Urged Not to Forget the Past

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The Lithuanian Ethnographic Museum in Rumšiškės is hosting a traditional meeting of exiles, organized by the Laptev Sea exile brotherhood "Laptevians". The meeting, as is the case every year, is held at the yurt-shack exhibited at the museum. The kind where several thousand Lithuanians exiled to the north of Siberia near the Laptev Sea took refuge for many years after the Soviet occupation.