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Monday, June 2, 2014

All Lithuania, all the time

Damn, y'all, third new visitor in four days. Lithuania dropped by, and we're happy to have them. The largest of the Baltic states -- with the others being Estonia and Latvia -- Lithuania has a storied and prominent place in Europe's history:
For centuries, the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea was inhabited by various Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, the Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, the King of Lithuania, and the first unified Lithuanian state, the Kingdom of Lithuania, was created on 6 July 1253. During the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe; present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia were the territories of the Grand Duchy. With the Lublin Union of 1569, Lithuania and Poland formed a voluntary two-state union, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighboring countries systematically dismantled it from 1772–95, with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania's territory.
Having fucked by Russia in the past, Lithuania got fucked by Russia again in 1940, when the Bolshevik bastards reoccupied Lithuania, then promptly lost it to the Germans in World War II. Russia moved back in in 1944, and the Lithuanians loved it so much, they were the first Soviet satellite state to tell the USSR to fuck off.

Couple that with a solid national basketball team and it's hard not to like Lithuania. Welcome to the Eff You family. Don't let those Russky bastards mess with you.

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