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

  • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 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.