 It is still valuable for scientific topics, but the social science articles were distorted to conform to Soviet propaganda (for example, it portrayed western countries as bourgeois dictatorships).Much attention was given to Marxism-Leninism and the Communist Party, and while many "inconvenient" topics from the Lithuanian history, such as the Lithuanian partisans, were entirely skipped.Between 1985 and 1988, the four-volume "Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedia" or "TLE", dealing with only Lithuania-related topics, was published.