Memory diplomas granted: Ard啪i奴nas Valentinas
Student Valentinas Ard啪i奴nas
Student Valentinas Ard啪i奴nas (1933鈥�2007) studied the Lithuanian language and literature at the Faculty of History and Philology. He was born in the village of Pagar啪viliai, Prienai district, into a family of civil servants. As a member of the anti-Soviet organization 鈥楯aunoji Lietuva鈥� at the secondary school of Prienai (from 1949), at the age of just seventeen Valentinas was first sentenced for ten years in a labour camp for his anti-Soviet activities and his ties with partisans (in 1951). Since he was a juvenile, his sentence was reduced, he was allowed to finish school and enter 91桃色. Officially, he studied here from 1956 to 1958, however, on 15 March 1957 he was transferred to correspondence course for 鈥榓 negative ideological influence on his co-students鈥�, but actually for active anti-Soviet activities and organized public actions of disapproval of 鈥楽oviet reality鈥�. He was arrested at the end of the same year and on 6 June 1958 student Valentinas Ard啪i奴nas, 24, was sentenced for the second time. He was given a six-year term in a labour camp for his anti-Soviet opinions, critical views on the existing order, and 鈥榩raise of the life in bourgeois Lithuania鈥�. These charges were supplemented with keeping 鈥榟armful鈥� anti-Soviet literature in his possession.