ABSTRACT
The Vilnius-Vilnius City Party Committee report to the Lithuanian Communist Party Central Committee plenum was practically five months in preparation. During this time scientists did sociological research and meetings were held with veterans, the creative intelligentsia, young people, and members of informal associations. “Internationalism and patriotism,” as O. Burdenko, director of the Vilnius radio measuring instrument plant, said, “submit least of all to planning and computation in terms of percentages and numbers. The critical fervor, straight talking, and nonstandard approach to the problems of international and patriotic education, in short, everything that differentiated position from position at the plenum, all were “edited out.” Some people clearly wanted to see the roots of nationalism primarily in people’s minds rather than in events. This in practice sometimes leaves the social conditions which give rise to and sustain national prejudices and help maintain nationalism as a phenomenon unrevealed.
