Subcultures in Lithuania

In the 1970s Soviet Lithuania, there were many groups resisting official Soviet ideology. One of the most notable was hippies.[1]

As the hippie movement faded in the 1980s, punk subculture took over its role of youth's cultural resistance. In those days people participating in punk subculture could still get beaten up by Soviet police (Militsiya), taken for interrogation by KGB, expelled from schools, and sometimes even put into mental health institutions[2]

  1. ^ Egidija Ramanauskaitė (2003). Jaunimo kultūrinė rezistencija sovietmečiu: hipių kultūrinės idėjos Lietuvoje (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2006-09-23.
  2. ^ Arnoldas Blumberg. "Thatcher, Punk and Post-Socialism". National Radio and Television of Lithuania. Retrieved 2006-09-23.