The Museum of Museum of Occupations and Freedom fights
The Museum of Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, which had been named Museum of Genocide Victims and is also known as the KGB Museum, was established in Vilnius in 1992. In 1997 was transferred to the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. This museum is one of the only museums of this kind in the former Soviet empire. The prison cells in the basement of the former KGB building where thousands of Lithuanians were interrogated before departure to Siberia have been left almost as they were when prisoners were packed into them 20 to a cell. Visitors can tour actual cells where prisoners were held and tortured. On weekends one can enter the room where up until 1963 the executions of prisoners took place. The museum describes the human rights abuses of the Soviets as the “genocide”, while the actions of Nazis are described as “repression against Jewish and other populations of Lithuania.” The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre uses a broadened definition of the term "genocide" to include social groups, such as Lithuanian national intelligentsia deliberately targeted by the Soviets. These photos were taken in August 2016.