Why I envy Valdas Bartkevičius
Silence cannot be punished. Living under the stress of being written to every day, of being asked to meet and threatened with violence against you and your family, of being told that they know where you live and will come, beat you up, shoot you, blow you up. Is it possible to be jealous of this? No. I experience it myself, albeit on a much smaller scale. But these couch knights are only scary on the internet, if you say that [...]
Commercial holidays and what they come with
The first comment under this article will be - don't celebrate what makes you tick. But as my sister would say, celebrations are needed to meet and talk to people close to you. And to give a printed piece of paper saying that you donated something to Ukraine. The vast majority see it differently. Midsummer is no longer about bonfires, birch trees, grasshoppers by the river with wreaths, the [...]
Public answer Valdas on š. Cows under a baking sky.
Standard. There used to be GOST, now there are others. And double. But for some it is better to live by GOST. We can rejoice at the exclusion of one girl from the World Championships, where the whole team went out together, but at the same time we rejoice at the gold of another girl because she did not go out of a match organised according to GOST standards and the win was snatched from the katzzaps. Why the most famous auto [...]
On political correctness
Julia Navalna writes: At last we find those who speak of the urgent need to "decolonise" Russia. Our country, which is too big, supposedly needs to be divided into a couple of dozen small and safe states. The "decolonizers", however, cannot explain why it is necessary to artificially separate people with a common origin and cultural context, and they do not say at all how this should happen.An excellent answer by Dzmitry Khurnievich: "About the common context. One [...]
Who will honour a nation without heroes?
A few years ago, when I personally encountered the submissiveness of the highest Lithuanian officials to the opinions of their foreign colleagues, I wondered, "Are they scared? "It was strange to feel that the apparent defence of one's own interests, which is not to the benefit of us, of Lithuania, has been accepted as legitimate and that even implicitly expressed wish has been satisfied. That thought did not give me peace for a long time. Like all ephemeral [...]
Volunteers.
Vilma Fiokla Kiure wrote - The word "volontior", from the English "volunteer". Certainly not from the Russian one, as some people think. In Ukraine it is used for volunteers. Since we work with Ukrainians, it stuck to us. So, who are our volunteers? I managed to talk to many of them, or at least exchange a word. They come from different professions, mostly small [...]
