Professor Vytautas Landsbergis

(AFP) Lithuania on Thursday launched a website dedicated to exposing the activities of the Soviet KGB secret police when the Baltic republic was ruled by the Kremlin.
"For years, the truth was hidden," Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said in a statement as the state-funded www.kgbveikla.lt went online.
"But today, the more truth there is, the greater freedom is too," added Kubilius, 54, a member of the dissident movement which steered Lithuania to independence in 1991 as the Soviet bloc crumbled.
The site was created under 2010 legislation beefing up efforts to call to account those who collaborated with the KGB during five decades of Soviet rule.
"It's certainly late and limited, but it's still a step in the right direction. It's important, because we'll no longer be hushing up dishonourable acts," independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis, 78, told AFP Thursday.