Lithuanians

And for the last year, I've been noticing Lithuania show up in my top 10 list.

Either Lithuanians are madly interested in finance or something is going on here.

How big is Lithuania? Like 2 million people?

Yeah, for free.

You don't get dragged onto their battlefield.

You hold your fucking line where you are and you don't wander on into that battle, right? It's just like the way that basically most Russian, Lithuanians, Latvians, whatever, it's how we're raised.

And David Shoebridge wandered on to somebody else's battlefield.

I think the easiest way that David Shoebridge probably could have gotten through that interaction was point to one of the broader principles that does impact the Australian situation, which is that the Australian people have no say in what wars we enter.

For the Jews, they were caught in the middle.

The Lithuanians, particularly, a lot of difficulty.

So that's compounding the Nazi threat, isn't it?

Well, of course, that took place prior to the ghettoization of the Jews.

And I'm so glad that you sectioned them out because they were just as important as the men.

These are people who are stepping up.

we call them in the book courier girls because in many ways they were still girls they were young people many of whom were still teenagers or in their early 20s and women were essential in the jewish resistance because because jewish men are circumcised they could so easily be revealed as jewish if they were caught by the Germans or by the Lithuanians or by the Polish guards.

So in terms of going outside of the ghetto and going from ghetto to ghetto, to sneak arms into ghetto, to sneak food and news, even babies, women in the ghetto were not allowed to give birth.

And I was like, no, it was existential death.

Lithuanians hissed at me, honey.

I can't devote my life to this anymore.

It's a waste.

It was rather because it was little use building up a good wooden house.

Many folk were engaged in raids all over the country, Crimeans, Poles, Lithuanians.

It was quite possible that their own countrymen might make a descent and plunder everything.

Anything was possible.

Though Russians regarded themselves as the dominant political, religious, and cultural force, they were numerically a minority.

After the Polish Rebellion of 1863, the state attempted to ban non-Russian language from schools and other institutions to better incorporate Belorussians, Georgians, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians, and all these other ethnicities into the state.

This tended to make non-Russians hostile to the state, especially as means of communications developed, accelerating the production of non-Russian language newspapers, journals, and books with the consequence that national self-determination became a fixture of radical politics in the empire's peripheries.

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