Algirdas Brazauskas
Overview
Soviet Union
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Lithuania
Lithuania
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from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Lithuania
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from 2001 to 2006.
He also served as head of the Lithuanian Communist Party that broke with Moscow, an act which arguably helped bring about the demise of the Soviet Union.
Brazauskas was born in Rokiškis, Lithuania. He finished Kaisiadoriai High School in 1952 and graduated from Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in 1956 with a degree in civil engineering
Civil engineering
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Quotations
Kol kabės šitas skuduras, aš nekalbėsiu.
Translation: While this rag is hanging, I will not speak.
Į savarankiškos Lietuvos valstybės idėją aš žiuriu neigiamai. Aš manau, kad tai nerealu.
Translation: I look at the idea of an independent Lithuania negatively. I think that it is unreal.
Aš nesu Dievas, aš tik premjeras.
Translation: I am not God, I am only the Prime Minister.