Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post

The USSR is still too close in history, and obviously something like being deported to Siberia for 8 years is not something a person simply forgets and forgives in a hurry.
Damn, you made my day again! Deportated to Siberia for 8 years! You are talking as if it would have been some kind of holidays to Lithuanians and, of course, Lithuanians will never forget such deportations because it’s just impossible to do that!
Did you know that hundred thousands of Lithuanians were exiled from Lithuania to Siberia and other far east regions and they spent there really not just some 8 years but most of them died there? The most famous places where Lithuanians were exiled was Krasnojarskas, Irkutskas, Tomskas, Kamerovas, Stalinskas, Jakutskas, Ulan Udė, barnaulas, Tiumenė, Siktyvkaras, Igarka, Bodaivas such lager camp like Magadanas and many others. Do you know what kind of people were exiled? Intelligent! Mostly doctors teachers and other educated persons who understood what are the aims of Russia and, of course, these who had their own lands of Lithuania. (After it Russians just let some other drunk Russians come to Lithuania and live in the houses of these exiled Lithuanians) Of course Russians newer warned those who will be exiled, they just came to Lithuanian houses at night, never let to take any things together with them and by force ‘goaded’ them to train carriages which were appropriate to carry animals. In these carriages there even was no space to turn around because of unnormally huge amount of people there (because in the same train carriages were pregnant women, little children and the elders. And then finally when these Lithuanians were already in Siberia (where in winters is -40 degries in Celcium) they had to live in such ice caves (and Russians even didn’t let to take any kind of wood so they could at least heat water for themselves), Lithuanians got about 100 grams of bread per day and worked like slaves for Russians while they were dead. Let’s say children who was about 6 years old worked in salt mines like many other and they during the day had to glue about 500 hundred sacks for the salt. If such a Lithuanian child was able to glue just let’s say 200 sacks per day (even though he worked all day long without any breaks) Russians just stopped giving this his food portion of the day. Lithuanian women and girls usually had to walk over and over again on the board which was put on huge vat full of boiling salts, and at the same time she had to mix all this salt. However, when she had no more strength and fainted and fell down to this boiling salt Russian supervisor usually said. ‘’Well done! There will be fewer of these Lithuanian bandits! And when other people who worked together with that girl started asking if someone can take her dead body of this salt, Russians usually said: ‘’Why? There is no need to do that! If after 6 months when this vat will be cleaned there will be left something of her bones, it will be taken off then.’’ And then they just told to other girl to go on the board and mix this salt again. So from 1944 to 1953 this way were exiled and died in Russia 300 000 most intelligent and hardworking Lithuanians. And this is just a few examples what Russians did not only to hundred thousands of Lithuanians… And, I personally really don’t think that such Russian ‘jobs’ can ever be forgotten.