Meilutė Julija Lukšienė–Matjošaitytė (August 20, 1913 Vienna, Austria - October 16, 2009 Vilnius, Lithuania) was a Lithuania

Lithuania

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n cultural historian and activist. She was a founding member of the Sąjūdis

Sajudis

Sąjūdis initially known as the Reform Movement of Lithuania, is the political organization which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was established on June 3, 1988 and was led by Vytautas Landsbergis...

, a political organization which advocated for the independence

Independence

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 of Lithuania from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Meilė Lukšienė died on October 16, 2009 in Vilnius, Lithuania, at the age of 97.