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Today, March 11, the day of the restoration of the independence of Lithuania, the publishing house of the Union of Lithuanian Writers shares the text of the poet printed in Atgimime, the first weekly of democratic Lithuania, in 1991, exactly one year after the restoration of Lithuania. independence.
Since 1991. Marcelijus Martinaitis himself wrote: “The good news visited us last year: on March 11, Lithuania opened a barn after a long winter and began to sow Independence.” Original approach, special peculiar style, unexpected digressions, images of life that intervene, ability to metaphorize the phenomenon, see it in the plot of many years of history, lyrical passages, witty and memorable expressions … Therefore, not only for this and the prediction and predictions of some events are amazing.
We invite you to read the article “Yesterday and Tomorrow” written by Marcelijus Martinaitis 30 years ago, which encourages the work that began on March 11.
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Yesterday and tomorrow
Fate, pushing the two Lithuanian Independence dates, which are very important to us side by side, seems to have clarified their genetic connection. One of them, proven, confirmed by facts and actions, is already historical, its meaning is universally understood, it is used as the main legal source of our statehood, the other, only one year old, which seemed accelerated, premature, similar to the once February 16. It is already beginning to be an independent party, but not yet sacred. On March 11 and 12 of last year, to embrace joy, we did not think how much more would be required for our sacrifices and sacrifices, and those sacrifices already exist, and they do all their sacred works, irrevocable, legitimizing what was proclaimed. orally. Our hopes came true or not, a fateful step was taken in time or out of time, but on March 11 anyway. That day looks different today, its meaning has grown over the years, it has become a limit that it is no longer possible to cross backwards. This is primarily what we have achieved and understood over the years. After all, February 16 did not immediately turn into what became one year, ten, now. It could only remain a one-time audacious challenge for a few signatories to the Act if the most important deeds were not done after that: the sacrifices made, the will and the wisdom shown. For the act of March 11 not to remain a mere fact of political writing, it will have to be full of diplomatic wisdom, the seriousness of the law and humanity, the concentrated will of the nation as we saw during the blockade, the thirteenth. January and February 9.
Everything that we have lived, understood, felt over the years is related in one way or another to last year’s struggle: determination and resignation, truth and doubt, courage and powerlessness, the first independent mistakes … of our history began to work. , we begin to live according to the conscience of others and the laws of time … The arrows also turn for those who do not want it and stand in front of us, such as, for example, the camp of the feast of the mourners of the burial in Lithuania, which still does not recognize the Central European era.
The March 11 work is not yet complete. It is still a process, our own nerves, mind and blood. History seems to be created backwards, the correctness and legitimacy of actions and acts is confirmed in retrospect, some of them are covered with events and meanings, and others, important as they are, perish, die, change their meanings. Our strength and will were translated into a word that would become reality after that day in March. We were the people of the word and we believed that the text of the Law would change everything by itself, save us and protect us from sacrifices, as is believed in the word of God. We, the people of song, poetry, and prayer, have briefly experienced the power of the miracle. There was a night and a day when, it seemed, everything had changed, the world and the sky had opened, when it seemed possible to start living differently with only one ambition. But there was little one night and one day, because on the second and third days a policy had already started that did not end a year later. And it will not end, because we will repeatedly be stuck, breaking our connections and nerves, but it will make us independent, knowledgeable. It has happened, and nothing has happened, but it will not be what it was and what it was, is not or will not be. The script is already written, although the roles have not yet been learned.
Over the years, we have come to realize that being free is not an easy thing to do. It takes words, things, land, books, work, money, going out to the countryside in early spring, looking from the Gediminas Tower to Vilnius, children’s games, a man and a woman walking through a field of rye. We need to free our thoughts about Paris, the Maironis Alps, Rome, the Lithuanian Magadan, Chicago, their graves in Lena … This year, we also draw bigger and bigger wheels, loose but with a broken chain on our feet. The hardest thing is the distrust of freedom, those wise wheels in decades of grass where everything is bloody. We open ourselves, but only on the other side, like money, we call ourselves a different party or institution, we attack a different one, freer, more independent or simply more intelligent. For whom is freedom and independence in hearts, and for whom celebration – in pockets …
Tried during the blockade, he tried to take advantage of the captivity still in us in January, his remains. And we didn’t make it anymore, it was a couple or three years late because we already felt that the chain was broken, that we had gone too far and that it was too short to re-tie ourselves. For the first time in many years, the deaths of people in the Television Palace and the Tower were gratuitous. This is an important change in us because the deaths of the dead have confirmed that life is also free or that it will soon be free. In our eyes, the Empire began to annihilate itself, as if trying to make its end as disgusting and bloody as possible. She, that enormous carnivorous animal, had not been without blood for a year: when there was a shortage of outsiders, José slaughtered his own, and varnished the blood of Hungarians and Afghans. This carnivore was arrested for seizures when they gave him Lithuanian herbs: now he is spitting and screaming. They are not afraid of weapons, they digest them well, but they weaken, as soon as a more humane law is passed, the evil is corrected, the truth is told, the innocent is freed. Hardly a few Lenins had been eliminated and the system felt more defeated than in Afghanistan, where thousands of young heads were deposited. Although incredible, we can defeat this terrible carnivore with our herbs, herbs, Lithuanian herbs … The avalanches of snow that lie in the mountains move in a word. We already know that word!
Recently, from the lips of the new prophet V. Alksnis on the radio and in the newspapers it was heard that with the weakening of military power no one will be afraid of Moscow, that people really need bread, but they do not know how. the fleet lacks aircraft carriers, but it is better to enter the market (“Knutom”), just as Catherine forced the Russian musicians to grow potatoes. He told the truth about what this system is based on, because all the promises of freedom, sovereignty, the free market are just a case that holds an old and well-known whip. As a result, the back of the system was shaken, the reserve trained and educated in the barracks and barracks, the blind generation, who will have to play the last farce, perhaps the bloody one. We have already seen them, they have been released on the streets of Vilnius, disrespectful soldiers of a disrespectful state.
Now the questions in Moscow are answered or answered by a gentleman I do not know. He speaks in the mouths of the elderly themselves, the elderly and even less the elderly, without knowing what to say, because neither the lie nor its botagical truth already work. They are used to talking to the busy, to giving up, to asking them to give up. Over the years, his botagical ideology became a parody of M. Žvaneckis’s intermediaries, and his last island, unfortunately, remained in Lithuania, in a hijacked television palace. Squeezed behind armed guards guarding its last frontier, they are reminiscent of the world’s last little Albania, from which archive fragments of “pre-science” and demagoguery emanate from the confined inner air. You will not hear such masterpieces of the passing era anywhere, not even at the meetings of the stagnant elders in Moscow. A well-known Moscow disc hijacked television shows to show his friends what a genetically degenerate ideology and its descendants are like, grouped behind the backs of soldiers in a small circle of Lenin’s guards. And they still want to rule us, they even say we love each other. And the word I love people for such breeding means: I want to own and control you, grow whips like Catherine potatoes. And they can no longer be different: a carnivore does not become a herbivore.
We have already tasted the fruit of the defended tree of liberty. Adam and Eve, simply scolding him, saw that he was naked. We have also seen our nakedness, loneliness and poverty. They came out of paradise to work the land and start the first generation of people. We are also leaving the promised paradise that is collapsing to work the land and continue the nation. And without being naked, children are impossible, gentlemen.
1991, March 11 Revival, 1991, March 14-21, p. two
