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Rūta Vanagaitė, author and public relations specialist, on Friday admitted having made misleading statements about Lithuania's anti-Soviet resistance leader Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas and publicly apologized for her "hasty and arrogant comments."
Rūta Vanagaitė, Algis Ramanauskas-Vanagas
Rūta Vanagaitė, Algis Ramanauskas-Vanagas
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"Today I openly admit that my opinion about Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas having endured no torture and having inflicted the injuries himself was utterly misleading and based on the lies recorded in the cases in an effort to conceal the traces of the tortures," Vanagaite said in a comment to BNS Lithuania on Friday.

"I am very sorry about th

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