Panemunė: The scenic road that saved Europe's banned language
www.bbc.com
For nearly 40 years, daring smugglers transported nearly 40,000 Lithuanian-language books into the nation each year when it was forbidden under Russian rule.

Like there rly is no other point in posting this other than to stoke russophobia. "OH those barbaric russians" thinks the reader while ignoring the history of their own country's linguicide, whether the uk, the us or any other western chauvinist shithole

  • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    And also this thing about Lithuanian being banned is a fucking lie. It was an official language in Lithuanian SSR and a lot of books in Lithuanian were printed then.

    • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      buried in the middle of the article it says the Tsarist regime banned it and the ban was lifted (still by the Tsars) in 1904. haven't checked elsewhere.

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Same thing happened all across Europe in the 19 and 20 century, "nation states" were kind of a big mistake eh