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In spite of all authoritarian efforts to desecrate this site, pilgrims from all over, along with locals, soon replaced the crosses on the sacred hill, until, exasperated at last, the Soviets gave up in 1985, leaving the Hill of Crosses in peace at last.

Since medieval times, this so-called Hill of Crosses has always stood for peaceful resistance from Lithuanian Catholics to all forms of oppression.