Word: lithuanian
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...Lithuania is slowly strangled, it appeals to the world for help. The world turns away ashamedly. Shame, because we know that the Lithuanian cause is just...
...usual answer -- the Lithuanian answer -- is an appeal to history. The American South voluntarily joined the American Union. Lithuania was conquered and involuntarily absorbed into the Soviet Union. Its original incorporation being illegitimate, it is not really seceding, it is merely reasserting a pre- existing independence of which it was robbed 50 years ago when jointly raped by Hitler and Stalin...
...tricky. On the one hand, where exactly does history stop? Lithuania was independent for 20 years between 1920 and 1940, but for more than a hundred years before that it was part of the Russian empire. Which historical period is the norm? The Russian imperium? The brief interregnum of Lithuanian independence? Or the Soviet reality of the past 50 years...
...fully. When our governments are called upon to support Lithuania's independence, they are mute. Why? Because while the Lithuanian cause is just, there are other causes in the world -- among them the continued success of Gorbachev's attempt to democratize, demilitarize, and decolonize the empire that he inherited. This too counts for something...
This tug between the justice of the Lithuanian cause and the need to preserve these other values embodied by Gorbachev is the source of Western paralysis over Lithuania. It is no use trying to justify that paralysis by denying, by appeal to Lincoln, the Lithuanian case. It won't wash. Our paralysis is justified only by admitting that the Lithuanian cause conflicts irreconcilably with other important values...