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Lithuanian Book Smugglers Vs. The Russian Empire

Ridiculous History

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Isn't It Such a Privilege That Americans Have?

i bet a lot of these kids probably did learn russian pretty well in addition to lithuanian, and had to kind of like hide it. Virtually every town and village had their own treasure trove of illegal books as well as a secret lithuanian school. And if you want kids to think school is cool as lame in 19 nineties as that sounds, tell them its secret. More and more people are rallying against this idea of rusification. It might look ok to the czar on paper, but its not working. People start organizing music. Will get together secret plays about how awesome lithuanian culture and languageis. And then they start having these things they call

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