Exposition “Sovietmečio pėdsakais” (“In the Footsteps of the Soviet Era”) at the History Museum of Lithuania Minor
Museum

In the central part of Klaipėda city.

Klaipėda is a region with a unique destiny. When the Soviets occupied Lithuania in 1940, the city and region of Klaipėda already belonged to the German Reich. In January 1945, the Red Army occupied Klaipėda. According to the registration data of the military commandant's office, at that time there were 28 civilians left in the city. Thus began a new Soviet phase in Klaipėda. One repressive regime was replaced by another.

The goal of the creators of the exhibition "In the Footsteps of the Soviet Era" is to encourage reflection on the Soviet era and the changes that began in the late 1980s, to discuss the complex space of the Soviet era. The story is about the new residents, the construction of "socialist" Klaipėda, the aspirations of Soviet ideology and propaganda, and resistance to the suppression of national, civic, and religious consciousness. Separate stories and themes are developed: an exhibition of the interior of a Soviet-era intelligentsia's living room illustrates the everyday life of people of that time; an improvised "red corner" and Soviet-era slogans tell about the methods and banality of Soviet propaganda; a computer terminal presents the construction of the Klaipėda Mary Queen of Peace Church and its fate in 1957–1963, etc.