vytautas ustauskas born march 19 1945 is a controversial lithuanian politician leader of the union of the fighters for lithuania kovotoj u lietuv sjunga political partyustauskas first gained popularity by defending the rights of the poorest lithuanians when the highsociety organised the first vienna ball in the vilnius city hall he organised a party for the poor people in the square just outside the building the vienna ball did not take place the following year which many people regarded as a victory for ustauskas as the idea became unpopular among members of high societythese events raised the popularity of the lithuanian liberty union as many poorer people already saw high society as a den for corrupt thieves the ideology which was propagated during communism and was supported by several scandals in the 90s the fact that ustauskas sold his car and invested much of his own funds into these parties for poor people also helped his popularity however his and liberty unions popularity distribution over lithuania was very uneven it was most popular in ustauskass hometown kaunas but was lacking elsewhere in the countrythe lithuanian liberty union gained a majority in kaunas city municipality council and ustauskas became mayor of kaunas later he was elected to the parliament of one of the electoral districts of kaunas city after this his popularity dwindled as little was achieved and there were several scandals concerning one member of his party enrikas daktaras son of henrikas daktaras godfather of local mafia enrikas daktaras was supposedly close to ustauskas himself and was arrested for drug smuggling ustauskas also allegedly had problems with alcohol he was not elected to parliament in 2004 elections and the lithuanian liberty union lost the influence in kaunas which it had held previouslyvytautas ustauskas is also known to have made several controversial statements which caused him to be considered a nazi by some however he stated himself to be leftist although these quotes were said during heated television discussions they attributed to the demise of politician both by lowering his ratings and also causing an impeachment process to be initiated against him in parliament the offending quotes werethere will not be order until well march through the parliament with kalashnikovsif hitler wouldnt have killed the jews id now have to shine their shoes in the middle of freedom avenue