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Gediminas Ilgūnas žymus lietuvių žurnalistas, rašytojas, kraštotyrininkas ir keliautojas. Penkiasdešimtaisiais už anti-sovietinę veiklą bei ryšius su partizanais suimtas ir kalintas. Paleistas iš kalinimo vietų organizavo etnografines ekspedicijas, kurių metu rinko medžiagą apie reikšmingas tautos istorijai asmenybes. Kolekcijoje saugomi dokumentai susiję su Ilgūno veikla Sąjūdyje ir Aukščiausioje Taryboje; trumpi prisiminimai apie stalinistinį laikotarpį; medžiaga skirta Vinco Pietario biografijai. Kolekcija supažindina su sovietinio laikotarpio kultūros aktyvisto ambicijomis rinkti ir išsaugoti Lietuvos istorinį ir kultūrinį paveldą.

This collection focuses on the case of Gheorghe Muruziuc, a person of working-class background who expressed his opposition to the Soviet regime by raising the Romanian flag on the factory where he worked, in June 1966. This was the first instance when the Romanian flag was displayed in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) after June 1940. 

The private collection contains materials documenting the celebration of the Grand Jubilee, when 100,000 pilgrims gathered in Solin in Dalmatia on 12 September 1976. The Grand Jubilee celebrated the thirteen centuries of the first contacts of the Croats with the Holy See and 1,000 years of the construction of the first known Croatian Marian shrine. By commemorating the Croatian Catholic medieval rulers and statehood, the Church articulated a collective identity rooted in the past and tradition. As such, it was inherently opposed to the socialist imagery offered by the Yugoslav state. Some Communist Party members saw in the massive mobilisation of believers the “escalation of nationalism” as a follow-up to the Croatian Spring.