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“Legally, such actions by R. Šimašius in relation to the Lithuanian language will be evaluated by the State Language Inspectorate,” said the president of VLKK.
He criticized the Vilnius municipality that the links on the beach were not written in Lithuanian. He also stated that the chosen place for the beach despises the history of Lithuania.
“I consider this not only as a mockery of the painful events in Lithuanian history, as a contempt for places worthy of respect, but also as a moral crime against the Lithuanian language. The visible English inscriptions around the territory demonstratively demonstrate that R. Šimašius deliberately spat in the Lithuanian language. And not for the first time, “said A. Antanaitis in the report.
Screenshot / Report of A.Antanaitis on the beach at Lukiškės Square
For his part, R. Šimašius said Monday that the beach at Lukiškės Square should remind people of what freedom really means.
“Yes, there are people who get angry when children laugh around the Vincas Kudirka monument, skate from the pedestal of the King Mindaugas monument or grab the stick of the Jonas Basanavičius monument to shine. But that is the life of the city.
It is a feeling that all the struggles, for our freedom and for our land, are not in vain. They reached their goal. The Nazis collapsed, the Communists rotted on the sidelines, and our freedom is alive and well. It is expanding and moving into the future. Lithuania has not been kept on one page in the textbooks of other nations, it is an example of today’s vigor and creativity.
Photo of Ernesta Čičiurkaitė / 15min / Mayor of Vilnius – Remigijus Šimašius
During the long decades of occupation, attempts have been made by several generations to claim that Lithuania can boast of at least one glorious past, and can now only obey power from the outside. The restoration of independence was also followed for a couple of decades when the historical view prevailed that freedom is only what causes poverty, sacrifice and honorable defeat in an unequal struggle. Freedom in such an understanding is about the past, not about the present and the future. However, the time has come to learn to enjoy the victory of freedom, feel its taste and know what we have to appreciate, why fight, if necessary, “said R. Šimašius.
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