ABSTRACT
The post-Soviet identity incorporated some of the images and experiences from the independence movement, continuing the narrative and this way substantiating historical legitimacy and presence. As political images tend to play such a significant role in these processes, the author discusses them in greater detail, also contextualising the Lithuanian case among other post-Soviet narratives. The main characteristics that unite the images of the national heroes mentioned above is their symbolism and their importance for the political identities in their respective contexts. In a political crisis like this, the established social and political norms and limits collapse, and the existing power structure loses its functionality—due to either its ineffectiveness or the external influences. The images that one would create when trying to imagine the ant's life, on the other hand, could provide decent material for a feature film or a documentary.
