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
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.
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.