The Lithuanian popular movement, Sajudis, had urged such a ban on military voting to prevent use of the military to influence local balloting.

Nevertheless, men responded to the call starting the Lithuanian partisan movement.

But the Lithuanian movement has a reputation for taking greater risks and has met with greater resistance from local Communist Party authorities.

The ban is widely felt to have stimulated the Lithuanian national movement, rather than discouraging it.

In the following decades however, a national, Lithuanian ethnicity-based movement emerged.

The Lithuanian movement Sajudis claimed victories for 32 of the republic's 42 seats, with 8 others forced into runoffs.

To some degree also, this Lithuanian movement arose in response, and as an alternative, to the separate mystical study of the Hasidic Judaism world.

The second-largest contingent is running under the banner of Sajudis, the Lithuanian popular movement, which has endorsed 146 candidates.

Even though there are considerable doubts whether such a place actually existed, the Lithuanian neo-pagan movement Romuva borrowed its name from the temple.

The Lithuanian movement, Sajudis, appears to be the best organized, with candidates in 39 of 42 races.