Политика памяти в Клайпеде на рубеже 1940–1950-х годов (по материалам газеты "Советская Клайпеда")

Based on the materials of the Sovetskaya Klaipeda newspaper, this article explores manifestations of the politics of memory pursued in Klaipėda and the whole West Lithuania region during the second half of the 1940s–the first half of the 1950s. The author identifies the main institutions responsible for creating a specific image of the past in Lithuanian society during late Stalinism. Based on newspaper articles, the author demonstrates the coexistence of various figures of memory, which were earlier described in historiography: from the Soviet (Socialist) to Russian and Lithuanian national as well as local ones