About
The First Secretary of the Lithuanian Communist Party from 1940 to 1974 who helped create the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Before Fame
He went to Russia and became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania.
Trivia
He initiated mass deportations of Lithuanians in 1941 and even had his own brother, with his family, deported to Siberia, where his brother died.
Family Life
He married Mira Bordonaite and they had two children together.
Associated With
He and Kazimira Prunskiene were both politicians from Lithuania.
