Vaclovas Bernotenas

)Juozas Jermalavičius 1940 02 04 Vergakiemis(Daugai municiplaity), Lithuania soviet actyvist, historian. CPSU member (1962).1964 graduated from Vilnius University, 1970 - Leningrad Higher Party School. From 1970 to1990 he wroked at the Center Committee of the Party History Institute under the Lithuanian Communist Party(LCP).1975-79,1983-89 lectured at Vilnius Univeristy(1987).He opposed the restoration of Lithuania's independence. At the 20th Congress of the LCP(12 December 1989), when the LCP was established as an independent member of the leadership of the LCP(CPSU) and later organized the authorities subordinate to the USSR.Member of the LCP(CPSU) Temporary Center Committee and its Bureau and Head of the Ideological Division  since 12 December 1989.Congress of the pro-Soviet Lithuanian Democratic Froces(1990-91), Lithuanian National Rescue Committee(1991) one of the managers. With others held the unsuccesful January thirteenth(1991), assisted in USSR aggression against the Republic of Lithuania. After the failed August Putsch (1991) fled to USSR.Arrested in Minsk on 01.01.1994 and transfered to Lithuania by Belarusian authorities.He was sentenced to eight years  in prison for the creation of anti-government organizations adn attempted coup d'état on 08.08.1999; In 2007, he obtained the citinzenship of the Russian Federation, while in prison, and continued to slander the Republic of Ltihuania.Since 2002 lives in Russia.Based on Soviet ideology , he wrote works , compilled collections of papers adn articles,mainly on Communist uprising and atheism,including the book Atheist Uprising in  Soviet Lithuania(1976).