Bronius Laurinavičius
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Monument to Laurinavičius in Vilnius (sculptor )
Bronius (Bronislavas) Laurinavičius (17 July 1913 – 25 November 1981) was a Lithuanian priest, member of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group.
He was killed in 1981 after reportedly being thrown by four men affiliated with the KGB onto a street where he was killed by an approaching truck. In 1998 he was awarded the Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis.[1][2]
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- 1913 births
- 1981 deaths
- Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests
- Soviet dissidents
- Commander's Grand Crosses of the Order of the Cross of Vytis
- Pedestrian road incident deaths
- 20th-century Christian martyrs