Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Lithuania yakanga yawanazve kuzvitonga kwayo muna 1918 pashure pokuparara kwoUmambo hweRussia. Sezvo kunetsana kwokutanga kwehondo kwakakura muEurope, Germany yeNazi neSoviet Union dzakasaina Chibvumirano cheMolotov-Ribbentrop ndokuparadzanisa Eastern Europe munzvimbo dzesimba. Zvadaro, Lithuania yakatorwa neSoviet Union muna June 1940. VaSoviet vakatanga mitemo yokudzvinyirira uye kudzvinyirira. Muna June 1941, vaSoviet
vakadzinga vanhu vokuLithuania vanopfuura 17 000 vachivaendesa kuSiberia, vakawanda vevakadzingwa vachifa munguva yechando yainetsa. Apo mazuva mashomanene gare gare Germany yakatanga kupinda muRussia, vaLithuania vakaronga kumukira kwavose kwaipesana neSoviet. Pakutanga, vaLithuania vakakwazisa vaGermany sevanunuri kubva mukudzvinyirira kweSoviet uye vakaronga kudzorera Lithuania yakazvimirira. Zvisinei, chimiro chendangariro chakakurumidza kuchinja sezvo kubatwa kweLithuania neNazi Germany kwakapfuurira.