Eugenija: “I lived nearby. I crossed the street, where there currently stands a Russian school.
That\u2019s how I walked into the cemetery. There was a mosque there, benches, the backyard of the school.
Later they started dismantling everything there, diggings began, excavators came and they wouldn\u2019t let us walk there anymore.
I would only walk near the mosque and with the trolley I would then go to the central path.
I saw that they were dismantling it, but from far away. That side was fixed just until the central path.
Just as you walked in through the main entrance, on the right side there was a row of crosses made out of cement for soldiers. They were for Lithuanian volunteers. After a while they were all dismantled, replaced by benches and there sat \u201cgrannies\u201d who jabbered. When they were dismantling the other side, near the orthodox church, you couldn\u2019t see a thing. The dismantling there was grave.
You could go to the marketplace by Vytautas avenue.
I used to see a lot of people there, that would go on walks.
Although I live really near, I just need to cross the street, this place is not a park to me even now. It\u2019s a cemetery. I can\u2019t be there. I get a bad feeling. One time an extrasens (medium) came to the city, she was showed around it. Although I don\u2019t know why. the extrasens lady said that this place was no good. There were a lot of dead peoples\u2019 bodies which weren\u2019t transferred. There\u2019s a bad aura. My son feels the same. He doesn\u2019t take walks there and doesn\u2019t walk the dogs.
When I used to go on walks there, the mausoleum of Darius and Gir\u0117nas was still there. I was down there to take a look at it. But it was empty, the graves were no longer there.
I saw the graves of Darius and Gir\u0117nas in the institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those, who were layed down in a row with the crosses, those gut dug up and transferred to a soldier cemetery. A lot of monuments were left here.
Moreover, there was a really nice monument for an actress or a songstress. Ona Rimait\u0117. During All Saints\u2019 Day, they would put a candle. I didn\u2019t see any candles for others. Sometimes flowers.
I remember people getting mad and making noise, when the demonstration in the cemetery was driven away.
I know, that I had already come back to study in the institute, but which year that was I don\u2019t remember. My colleague Brasi\u016bnas got into that whole mix of the demonstration. We saw, that in Vytautas avenue there were police cars. Although from other people I didn\u2019t really hear, what exactly had happened.” (2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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