#lithuanian stuff

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Another thing I love about Lithuania is their magazines. Most of them are about history and cooking, lots of about cleaning, politics, crosswords, a couple of fashion magazines aaaaand this one:

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“I remember why we are free”      -- a poster by Jekaterina Budrytė for Freedom Defenders' Day 

Every year Lithuania marks the Freedom Defenders' Day to commemorate the 14 victims that lost their lives during Soviet aggression on January 13, 1991.

Fourteen civilians were killed and hundreds more were wounded when the Soviet troops stormed the TV Tower and the Radio and Television Committee building in Vilnius. The Soviet Union used military force in an attempt to overthrow the government of Lithuania, which had declared independence on March 11, 1990.

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The Baltic Way to independence: 30 years since the landmark human-chain protest

The Baltic Way or Baltic Chain (also Chain of Freedom) was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across the three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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Google’s doodle for the 100th anniversary of Restoration of Lithuania's independence

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Lietuva (Lithuania) is celebrating 100 years of Restored Independence today (February 16)!

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Are Lithuanians obsessed with bees?

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees.

BBC asking the real questions

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Lithuanian mythology (Lietuvių mitologija)   ↳  (some of the) gods and goddesses

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‘Subaru’ always cracks me up because in Lithuanian ‘su baru’ means ‘with a bar’