Well... &quot;Not happy&quot; - depends on who you ask in Lithuania. My great grandmother was killed by nationalists near Zarasai. So her daughter - my grandmother - was brought up by relatives in Kaunas, and understandably never had any sympathies for the pre-war Lithuanian state and people missing it. She&#x27;s still alive, by the way, and hates the way modern Lithuanian official historians idealize &quot;forest brothers&quot;, nationalists, etc.<p>This does not make USSR a much better place, of course, but they did just let everyone go in the end, didn&#x27;t they..? I still remember all those endless trains with tanks going east. I can&#x27;t really remember too many examples of such a &quot;mild&quot; empire, em, disappearance.