Name: Monument to the Fighters for Bread
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Location: Vilnius County, Lithuania

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August 21, 2023

In July 1917, the brave farmers of Samantonii in the Vepriai district resisted the German occupiers and sacrificed their lives for bread, a new harvest that the then German government sought to expropriate. The brave act forced the Germans to cancel mass requisitions in Lithuania. To commemorate these events in 1928 a monument with a cross was built for the money collected by teacher Antanas Maldutis. As the Soviet authorities demanded the destruction of the monument to the bread fighters, the monument was moved to the Sližiai cemetery with the care of Steponas Jankeliūnas, the then chairman of the S. Nėries collective farm, and a new one was built in the center of the settlement in the same year (1974) (the author of the monument was teacher Jonas Žentelis).

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