Monument to the Partisans of Vytautas County
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In Utena, a monument to the partisans of Vytautas County was erected in Utena Square in 2009. The monument symbolizes an altar, and its authors are sculptor Vidmantas Gylikis and architect Marius Morkūnas. It is dedicated to the memory of the partisan fighters of the three Vytautas County teams.
The partisans relied on three fundamental things in life: Faith, Hope and Love – for God, Homeland, neighbor... The number "three" is repeated in various forms in the composition. The three planes of the pyramid are the three partisan teams, the fourth is our land on which we live... From half of the pyramid, as if from the fog, a forest of crosses emerges, symbolizing our brothers and sisters who sacrificed their lives on the Altar of Freedom, above which rises the Vytis Cross, a symbol of the nation's struggle and rebirth.
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Information from the Lithuanian Population Genocide and Resistance Research Center
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