Kazys Pak?tas (1893-1960) was a Lithuanian scientist, a vivid and eccentric public activist and politician of the interwar period. He laid the foundation of geographical studies in Lithuania, but also turned them into an instrument for legitimation of the young state independence. The Baltic sea was turned into one of central elements of his concept of Lithuanian creative dynamism and new national discourse. Pak?tas’ practical ideas («Baltoscandia», «alliance of the Great Thalassocracy and the Thalassocracy Minor», «Lithuania-in-reserve») were utopian and naive. They reflected the links that the scholar was constructing between the Lithuanian Republic and important partners, such as Scandinavian countries, the United States of America, Great Britain, and the “reserve Lithuania”. In each case, only sea routes were considered by him as communications.
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