Lithuania - most underrated country?

**Russki** · 03-19-2022, 04:58 PM

Lithuania is mostly known as a small country that was occupied by the Soviet Union, but they used to be very important

**SilverKnight** · 03-19-2022, 05:02 PM

I dated a Lithuanian chick back in 2015 (just for a bit of time), she used to work in the front desk/ lobby for this luxary apartment complex back when I used to live in North Miami Beach.

Very laid back/ down to earth. First Lithuanian I ever met, not many around... so yeah..

**Jana** · 03-19-2022, 05:12 PM

Don't think it's underrated, it's just bit below the radar (normal because it's small). In Croatia most people know them for great baskeball players.
I like their flag a lot, very cheerful for such a northern land.

what I know about them:

-used to be giant country from Baltic to black sea, and ethnic Lithuanians were large minority there. GDL was at once largest country in Europe, although very sparsely populated
-very arhaic language closest to ancient Indo-European
-yeah, basketball
-Catholics of the north
-Vilnius used to have Polish majority
-lot of Jews (Litvaks) lived there
-WHG peaks there (and in Latvia)
-lot of female models come from Baltic states
-big emigration and depopulation
-flat and marshy landscapes
-they have less Russians than Latvia and Estonia
-Lithuanian nobility and elite was polonized during PLC
-we used to be ruled by Lithuanian Jagiellonian dynasty for a while