''Undzer emes'' ('Our Truth') was a
Yiddish-language communist publication in
interwar Lithuania
The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded many thousands of years ago, but the first written record of the name for the country dates back to 1009 AD. Lithuanians, one of the Balts, Baltic peoples, later conquered neighboring la ...
, an organ of the
Central Committee
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of the
Communist Party of Lithuania. The publication was issued illegally and irregularly from
Kaunas
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between 1923 and 1934. It was published clandestinely on a monthly basis, with a circulation of 3,000. Aizikas Lifšicas and J. Šochotas were part of the editorial team of ''Undzer emes''.
''Undzer emes'' was printed in
Berlin
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1931–1933, but the Lithuanian communists could not continue publishing activities there following the
National Socialist
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takeover in Germany.
[Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED., and Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands. ]
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung
'. Berlin: Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus], 1959. p. 891
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