Sovetskaya Litva (literally: Soviet Lithuania; Russian: Советская Литва) was a Russian-language daily newspaper published in the Lithuanian SSR.
[2] On 10 July 1940, less than a month after the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, the newspaper was established as Truzhenik (Worker; Russian: Труженик) and was published in Kaunas.
[1] As the official newspaper, Echo Litvy was obligated to publish adopted and proposed laws which hurt its popularity.
[6] These changes were not accepted by pro-Soviet activists who in March 1990 – August 1991 published alternative pro-Moscow Sovetskaya Litva and Lithuanian-language Tarybų Lietuva.
However, it retained its dry tone of an official newspaper and displayed nostalgic tendencies for the Soviet past.