Kražiai massacre
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kra-iai-massacre-167-4094748
title:
Kražiai massacre
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Kražiai massacre was an attack by a Russian Don Cossack regiment on Lithuanians protesting the planned closure of a Roman Catholic church in Kražiai, then part of the Russian Empire, on 22 November 1893. As part of wider Russification efforts, the Tsarist government decided to close the women's Benedictine monastery in Kražiai. The locals petitioned to keep the monastery's Church of the Immaculate Conception open and transform it into a parish church. The Tsar ordered the monastery closed and de
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1893 massacre in Kražiai, Russian Empire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kra%C5%BEiai_massacre
date created:
2018-10-19T05:34:30Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:30:33Z
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