Background
MITSKYAVICHYUS-KAPSUKAS, Vintsas was born on March 26, 1880 in Lithuania Son of a peasant.
MITSKYAVICHYUS-KAPSUKAS, Vintsas was born on March 26, 1880 in Lithuania Son of a peasant.
Studied at Mariyampole high-school. 1902-1904 studied political economics and philosophy at Bern University.
1903 joined Lith Social-Democratic Party. Active in 1905-1907 Revol. 1907 arrested; 1909 sentenced to eight years’ hard labor.
1913 exiled to Siberia, whence he fled. 1914 lived in Cracow, where he made contact with Lenin. Then lived in United Kingdom and United States of America.
Edited Lith-Social-Democratic emigre newspapers “Rankpelnis”, “Socialdemokratas” and “Kova” and journal “Naujoji gadyne”, propagating Bolshevik World War 1 policy and advocating rapprochement between Lith Social-Democrats and Bolsheviks. June 1917 returned to Petrograd and joined Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks). Edited first Lith Bolshevik paper “Tiesa”.
Dcleg at 6th Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Congress and 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets. 21 December 1917 appointed Commissar for Lith Affairs in Soviet government. As member, Centr Bureau of Lith Section, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), helped found Communist Party Lithuania
1918-1935 member, Central Committee, Communist Party Lithuania 1918-1919 chairman, Council of People's Commissar of Lith-Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. 1920-1921, after collapse of Soviet regime in Lith, did underground work in Vilnius.
From late 1921 in Moscow. 1924-1928 candidate member, from 1928 member, Communist International Executive Committee. Head, Polish-Baltic Laender Secretarial, Communist International Executive Committee.
Company-founder International Organization(s) for Aid to Revol Fighters. Member, Central Committee, International Organization(s) for Aid to Revol Fighters of 1st convocation. 1898 first work published.
Wrote 47 books and pamphlets on Lith Marxist history, philosophy, proletarian lit, et cetera Wrote studies of 1918-1919 revol in Lith and history of Lith Social-Democratic movement.
The hierarchical structure of most religions is anti-democratic, and thus offends basic human rights.
Communist Party is the leading force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of all state and public organizations.