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The First World War and Lithuania. The global conflict of the First World War directly and very painfully affected our land, because at that time Lithuania became part of the Tsarist Russian Empire. Our country participated in this war, although not by its own will. In Lithuania Minor in 1914 August 2 general mobilization was announced. The intense push of the Eastern Front, which took place on the territory of Lithuania for about fourteen months, demanded great human sacrifices and destroyed the country's economy. Authors Inga Berulienė and Justinas Lingys