Before wreck of the USSR Yan Tihonovich was one of the most outstanding politicians of Lithuania, he was the national Deputy of the USSR, the active public figure. But after nobody head anything about him. Now J.Tihonovich writes very interesting books. But how did he become the writer? Get known about it in our interview.

- Tell me from the point of view of the Polish patriot, whether you supported liquidation of Soviet Union?

- Why have you decided so? Only villain is capable to be a member of parliament of the country and simultaneously to harm to this country. I did not support destruction of the state the citizen of which I was; on the contrary, I was for its development. By the way, in 1990 I warned M.Gorbachev and B.Eltsin that crash of the great country, even if controlled, always results in the sufferings of people; I have also told them that reforms should be introduced cautiously, little by little, in the clever, systematic and is democratic way. Unfortunately, I was right: during the 10 years after "dissolution" of the USSR more than 1 million died in the ethnic civil, 12 millions were made to leave their native land and the tens of millions were plugged into poverty. Total disorganization of public life, culture, morals, health protection occurred. As if all of us have gone through a "small" war in which we have lost.

- You were the Member of Parliament. Then why did not you protect the country from this misfortune?

- In the years 1990-1991 opinions of the Members of Parliament were simply ignored. By the way nothing in the country depended on deputies. Special services controlled everything, the generals of KGB and the top of the Party appointee that supported them managed the “dissolution” of the country. But it is not actually to discuss this question.

- Don’t you want to return to politics?

- No. In 1992 in the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Lithuania I promised not to return to politics anymore. And I keep my word. However, there is no real politics in our country today. Many "omnivorous" people who call themselves "politics" everywhere potter about. To be among them would be too humiliating for me.

- And where do you work now? As far as I know, you are educated person, Polish Diaspora in Lithuania needs you very much; but you are not here.

- In May, 1988 I was given status of the senior lecturer of faculty of philosophy (I am the candidate of philosophical sciences) in the former Vilnius State Pedagogical University; at that time I was also executing as the dean in the faculty of foreign languages. I was on friendly terms with the lecturers. But soon I together with adherents have organized the Union of Poles of Lithuania and the first session was hold in an assembly hall of the University; then I began organizing circles of the Union in the Polish villages of Vilna land. Since then I was announced as “the enemy of the Lithuanian nation” by the State security. So I had to leave the University (Interesting that I was not given diploma of docent and appropriate papers disappeared from the protocol at all) and a from 1991 till 1992 I had not work at all. Later I was offered the job in Poland. Since then I teach there German, history of philosophy, ethics. Nobody gives me the job in Lithuania though I am the citizen of this country.

I have written all books on my native language, though there are also many journal publications in English, Russian, German, Lithuanian and Byelorussia languages. I write books and articles on history of culture, science and engineering, but in rather specific way. If you will take any of my books you will notice at once that their "heroes" are outstanding people (writers, composers, inventors, philosophers, mathematicians, scientists and so forth), their forefathers arise from the Great Princedom Lithuanian. During more than a quarter of century in archival assemblies of Vilnius, Minsk, Grodno, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Lvov, Tver, Krakow, Warsaw, Zhitomir and other cities I have found out a lot of interesting documentary material. This is mostly material absolutely unknown to science and the one, which was never published before, but it is really amazing. The name of the greatest genius of the world literature of F.M.Dostoevskij is well known to everybody. I managed to find in the archives of Minsk and Kiev a lot of interesting and gripping material about his ancestors, noblemen of the Polish king who owned manors in the former Brest Government of a province, included in the Great Princedom Lithuanian. ) I have placed many of these hand-written materials (the originals are mostly written in the Polish language) in the book " On a Joint of Civilizations " (Na styku cywilizacji) which I’ve published in Poland in 1997. To my min, it would be very interesting to get acquainted with these materials for the historians and teachers of the literature not only in Lithuania, Byelorussia, Russia and Poland, but also in the foreign countries, too. By the way, positive reviews of this book have appeared already in Paris, New York, Toronto, Warsaw, and Petersburg.

Last year my three-volume book "Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism" was published. The first volume is devoted to K.E.Tsiolkovskij, the second - to V.I.Vernandskij and the third to A.L.Chizhevskij, three great classics of the Russian and world science of XX century... I frequently illustrate my books with the reproductions of stamps of the USSR, Russia, Lithuania, Byelorussia, Poland, USA etc.