Lithuania wants compensation for Soviet-era 'occupation'

[member]

Anusiya, and what do you have to do with all this? You have no clue about the history of the region and you come here and talk shit as if you knew everything. Another troll.

I guess some Greeks don;t know wehere to spill their anger for the criticism they get for the state they are in... You know my cat also goes chasing my other cat when I punish him. Known behaviour.

[Anusiya]

Anusiya, and what do you have to do with all this? You have no clue about the history of the region and you come here and talk shit as if you knew everything. Another troll.

I guess some Greeks don;t know wehere to spill their anger for the criticism they get for the state they are in... You know my cat also goes chasing my other cat when I punish him. Known behaviour.

Yeah another troll, the German was right, the Russian was right, and seems the Greek is pretty much right too. 3-1 and the three are the trolls.

[Hochmeister]

There are several reasons:
Lithuania had only one person who could be compared to Mannerheim, that person was Silvestras Žukauskas

Bla-bla-bla

Finland wasn't defeated judging from the number of killed Soviet soldiers

Finland was defeated. The Soviets could easily take Helsinki.

Even in Latvia communists had greater support because Latvian agricultural reform wasn't so drastic

I'm glad you are not rejecting the fact there was a number of Pro-Soviet forces in the Baltic States' society.

Before Smetona Lithuania had democtratically elected goverment. You quote clearly mentioned take over, that is, it was done without asking the nation. BUT it can not be compared to Nazist Russia or Soviet Union because unlike the wo mentioned it was authoritarian dictatorship. Only seevral countries in Euroope during interbellum were democtratic.

Smetona was a dictator. Lithuania was not a democracy. Fullstop.
Democratic Lithuania had been existed only 6 years before Smetona.

Historians have also discussed an exaggerated fear of communism[1] as a factor

And you tell me there were no Communists in Lithuania?

When they could legally take part in Seimas election, they got whole 5 seats in the parliament (they were forbidden to take part in later elections):
The first Seimas of Lithuania - 5 communists out of 90 members.

Because of the fear?

A. Smetona, though propagandizing nationalism, repudiated both Italian fascism and German National Socialism. He strove to create a unique form of governing for Lithuania, which, to his mind, would suit best the character of the nation and would foster most strongly the spiritual culture and welfare of the nation.

So what?

Smetona didn't want to fight with Soviets or with Germans, stop lying.

Quote:
In the summer of 1940, after the USSR presented an ultimatum to Lithuania, A. Smetona proposed armed resistance against the USSR. But with no approval of the major part of the government and the commander of the army, A. Smetona turned his duties over to Prime Minister A. Merkys, and on June 15 he and his family retreated secretly to Germany. After a few months he moved to Switzer land, to Bern. At the beginning of I941 he and his family came to the USA

I said: And actually Smetona wanted to fight with the Soviets but the Lithuanian government didn't support this traitor, that's why Smetona fled from the country to the Third Reich and then to the USA.
You said:[QUOTE]Smetona didn't want to fight with Soviets ... Smetona proposed armed resistance against the USSR. But with no approval of the major part of the government ... and ... he and his family retreated secretly to Germany.
You have confirmed my words, but then you called me a liar? Don't be silly.
It's you who's is illogical here in your own posts.

[RussiaPrussia]

Lithuanians should pay us compensation for killing russians in ww2

[bella1407]

Lithuanians should pay us compensation for killing russians in ww2

agree!

[lI]

Lithuanians should pay us compensation for killing russians in ww2

Please enlighten me when exactly did Lithuanian Army enter Russia during the WWII? When did Lithuanian occupational government make mass deportations of Russian civilians to the uninhabitable parts of Siberia, leaving them there to labour to death deprived of food? You see, my memory fails me as I don't seem to be able to remember such things happening.

On the other hand, I do remember hearing about such atrocities being performed by Soviet Russians in Lithuania.

And you tell me there were no Communists in Lithuania?

So? How is that relevant to anything if the number of communists in Lithuania was absolutely minuscule? You may be confusing us with Estonia or even Finland for all that matters but the situation in Lithuania was very different because it was much more agricultural at that time and there simply wasn't enough factory workers who could have caused any real threat of communist revolution happening from within.