Background
PALETSKIS, Yustas was born in 1899 in Telsiai, Lithuania.
PALETSKIS, Yustas was born in 1899 in Telsiai, Lithuania.
Studied at Kaunas University.
1926-1927 Director, Lithuania Wire Agency “Elta”. 1927-1939 corresponding for Riga newspapers and magazines. Since 1919 writer; author of several collections of verse.
1939 arrested by Lithuania government for Communist activities. 1940, after occupation of Lithuania by Soviet Army, headed Lithuania Communist government. Headed Lithuania delegation Moscow to request Lithuania incorporation in USSR.
During World War П helped organize Lithuania units in Soviet Army and partisan movement. Deputy, Lithuania Supreme Soviet and USSR Supreme Soviet of all five convocation. Member, USSR Interparliamentary Group.
Attended Executive Committee sessions of Interparliamentary Union: 1958 at Geneva. 1959 at Nice; 1960 attended 49th Conference of Interparliamentary Union, Tokyo.
The hierarchical structure of most religions is anti-democratic, and thus offends basic human rights.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the leading and guiding force of Soviet society, and the nucleus of its political system, of all state and public organizations.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.