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How a Chicago teacher sparked a memory war, forcing Lithuania to confront its Nazi past Gil Skorwid and Patrick Smith © Provided by NBC News VILNIUS, Lithuania As her mother lay dying, Silvia Foti made a promise. She vowed to continue her plans to write a book about her mother s father, Foti s grandfather, a Lithuanian hero known as General Storm. He was among the young soldiers who fought the Soviet Union in its brief but brutal first occupation of Lithuania in 1940, and he was later shot in a KGB prison. He, like many of his comrades, is considered a national hero.

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