Ghetto for Russians
Lithuania is actively involved in the information war against Russia. Nobody hides that. Moreover, the highest echelons of the Lithuanian authorities constantly emphasize the need to firmly confront Russian propaganda up to the prohibition of Russian TV channels and the media in Russian, as well as various legislative and other initiatives to reduce freedom of speech and information. First of all, among the presidential structures, as well as in the publications of numerous “political scientists”, “experts” and “analysts,” new ideas and theses are being added, designed to further strengthen the confrontational character of “truthful and objective” Lithuanian information products in the spirit of the well-known position of the President of Lithuania Dali Grybauskaite: "Russia is a terrorist state."Recently, in connection with this, and especially under the influence of the Ukrainian events, a real propaganda-militaristic psychosis has been observed in the Lithuanian media. Under these conditions, the second and third plan shifted not only the socio-economic problems of the Republic of Lithuania, but also weakened the attention of both the general public and the media to neo-Nazi manifestations in the political life of the country. Although, it is clear that these are interrelated phenomena. Anti-Russian policy worsens the socio-economic situation, and this, in turn, stirs up the growth of neo-Nazi sentiment.
On all sorts of statements and revelations in this regard, which mainly come from Russia and Israel, the Lithuanian authorities and official media have a standard excuse. All hints of Nazism reviving in the Baltic countries and its rehabilitation are, they say, “Moscow propaganda” in order to discredit the “new European democracies” in world public opinion.
The official media at the same time quite flexibly uses the tactics of putting the labels on various political forces that are necessary in this matter. With the filing of the President of Lithuania, Grybauskaite, the annual marches of nationalists and overt neo-Nazis 16 in February in Kaunas and 11 in March in Vilnius under the widely known slogan “Lithuania to Lithuanians” are now called “patriotic youth” shares.
At the same time, the Lithuanian media are always ready to present to the public a certain “official fascist” who is condemned by both the public and the ruling elite. At one time, the radical from Šiauliai Mindaugas Murza was “nominated” for this role, all of which Fascism, either by stupidity or by the prompting of “elder comrades”, consisted of the national-socialist name of his party and the use of swastika-like symbols.
The radical from Siauliai Mindaugas Murza with symbols on the flags, like a swastika.
Later, however, the “Lithuanian Nazi” Murza married the “Countess” from Russia Zlata Rapova, the newly-wed newlyweds soon had a son, Murza himself changed his last name, became Mindaugas Garvardas and soon withdrew from active politics.
Now the role of the “official fascist” is actively “pushed” by the former associate of Murza, the leader of the “national socialists” party, Zilvinas Razminas. But judging by his views, this figure can be called a left-radical eclectic rather than a right-wing Nazi. In particular, the site of his party presents the works of the classics of Marxism - Leninism as an ideological platform on 70%, and the rest is a kind of theoretical cocktail from the articles of Joseph Goebbels, Julius Evola (Italian philosopher, ideologist of neo-fascism - NewBalt), Alexander Dugin and etc.
However, Razminas himself gained fame, first of all, as an active organizer of anti-NATO rallies and propagandist of the theory of "NATO-US occupation" of independent Lithuania. He also categorically speaks out for Lithuania’s withdrawal from the European Union and against the dictatorship of big business, for social justice and the restoration of state independence.
In short, the identity of the “official fascist” for the authorities is more than appropriate. Although it cannot be ruled out that there is some kind of double or even triple play by the Lithuanian special services themselves. In any case, in this situation, the power "kills" several birds with one stone. A distrust of the anti-NATO, anti-American position is created, the left-wing socialist idea is discredited, and at the same time, in connection with the accusations of encouraging neo-Nazism, the arrows are shifted from the state level to political marginals. The latter, as is known, are present in every democratic society.
Meanwhile, these games in the shadow remain the real Nazi manifestations in the social and political life of modern Lithuania. The true carrier of neo-Nazi consciousness in Lithuania is the Conservative Party and its many subsidiary organizations. It is the conservatives and their “patriarch” Vytautas Landsbergis who are the main skirmishers in the rehabilitation and revival of Lithuanian neo-Nazism.
It should be remembered here that back in November 2007 of the year, after an almost one-year investigation, a specially created parliamentary commission to clarify the causes of the murder in 90 of the famous state security officer Yuras Abromavicius, who was studying the high-profile crimes, and which popular rumor associated with the closest surrounding of Landsbergis , concluded that the murder of this officer was carried out "by an organization with signs of terrorist and associated with the then members of the Conservative Party."
This scandalous conclusion, however, did not lead to any consequences. Moreover, in 2008, the government of the parliamentary minority, which was headed by the then chairman of the Social Democrats, Gediminas Kirkilas, came to the point that the conservatives, led by party leader Andrius Kubilius, concluded an agreement on mutual support and cooperation, completely forgetting that the left, where is the side.
On the initiative of the Conservatives and Landsbergis, the Lithuanian authorities rehabilitated and erected Nazi military accomplices on a heroic pedestal. It all began in the early years of the proclamation of an independent Republic of Lithuania. Immediately, the process of indiscriminate glorification, the so-called post-war anti-Soviet "partisans", including a lot of those who directly collaborated with the fascist invaders and participated in mass executions of the Jewish population, as well as Soviet post-war activists and just civilians, went.
As Lithuanian journalist Giedrius Grabauskas notes, in Lithuania, starting from 1990, a cult of Nazi criminals is being created, among which J. Noreika - General Vetra, J. Krikshtaponis, V. Vitkauskas - Sidokas, J. емmaitis - Vytautas, A. Baltusis - Zvijas , Y. Misyunas - Green Devil and others.
In 1941-1944, they participated in the massacres of Jews, communists, Komsomol members, Soviet activists, and Soviet prisoners of war in Lithuania, Belarus and Poland. Since autumn, 1944 has become influential figures in the anti-Soviet partisan movement in Lithuania. Today, their names are streets, squares, schools in various Lithuanian cities and towns. They established monuments and memorials.
Memorial plaque in Vilnius to the Lithuanian Nazi henchman Jonas Noreik (“General Wind”).
At the same time, during the years of independence, not one former fascist collaborationist of Lithuanian origin, who was deported to Lithuania from the USA and other countries, was not convicted in Lithuania. All of them survived to very advanced years and safely left in a different world already in independent Lithuania. Meanwhile, the former post-war officers of the Soviet special services are still being prosecuted in a criminal procedure and over them, deep old men, demonstration trials are organized with the appointment of real punishment.
Any revelations of the current "heroes" and the publication of their former "exploits" in modern Lithuania is a very dangerous occupation. You can immediately get under the well-known article 170.2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania "Public approval of international crimes, crimes committed by the USSR or Nazi Germany against the Republic of Lithuania or its inhabitants, their denial or gross derogation."
Indicative in this respect story with the Lithuanian publicist Evaldas Balchunas. In the alternative Lithuanian press, he published a journalistic investigation entitled “Traces of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in the murder of the Druskininkai Jews”.
Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas is another famous leader of the post-war anti-Soviet partisan movement in today's Lithuania. In 1998 by decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania he was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general, he was awarded the Order of Vītis of various degrees, he was given commemorative signs in Lithuania, one of the Lithuanian gymnasiums was named after him.
With regard to this man, as well as his other associates, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Center constantly and aggressively declares that "the guerrilla commanders have nothing to do with the Holocaust."
It is noteworthy that at the beginning of his investigation, Balchiūnas warns the authors of any possible revelations regarding the said personality, since his daughter is an active politician, a former member of the Lithuanian Seimas, and is very jealous of public doubts about the “patriotic” activities of her father, declaring them to be slander and initiating criminal prosecution of "doubted".
Nevertheless, the publicist, based on the analysis of some documents, which for some reason the employees of the Genocide and Resistance Center do not notice, concludes in his investigation that Ramanauskas-Vanagas, being one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet uprising in 1941, could not but participate in the Nazi activities of organizing the originally Jewish ghetto in Druskininkai, and later in 1942, and in the deportation of Druskininkai Jews to the death camp - Treblinka (for more information on the literary language here).
As a result, after the publication of these revelations, as Balchunas himself predicted, several lawsuits were filed against him and some other authors of such materials by “vigilant patriots” and, probably, the judicial marathon will continue for a long time.
The most prominent role in the process of the nationalization of Lithuanian politics and the political consciousness of Lithuanian society was and still is played by Landsbergis. Moreover, in Lithuania this is not a surname, but a diagnosis. The diagnosis of rabid Russophobia as a modern form of Nazism. In particular, Landsbergis in 2013 took an active part in organizing the reburial in Kaunas of the remains of the head of the so-called “provisional government of Lithuania”, and essentially the collaborationist, pro-fascist government of Juozas Brazaitis-Ambrazevicius.
Landsbergis grieves at the reburial ceremony in Kaunas of the remains of the head of the pro-fascist government Juozas Brazaitis-Ambrazevicius. Photo: Alkas.lt.
This government has tainted itself with the closest cooperation with the Nazis at the very beginning of the war and participation in crimes against humanity. In 1941, as head of the Provisional Government of Lithuania, Juozas Ambrazevicius signed a welcome letter to Adolf Hitler, in which he expressed the most loyal feelings. The reburial, officially supported and financed by the authorities, very clearly demonstrated the value orientations of the ruling elite of present-day Lithuania.
It is possible that Landsbergis’s position is explained not only by his current political views, but also by family and genetic circumstances. His father, Vytautas Landsbergis-ямamkalnis, was not only the minister of the Ambrazevicius government, but also, according to documents, Lithuanian journalist Ruta Yanutena showed in her book “Landsbergis. The history of dynasty survival ”, along with Hitler’s future ideological inspirer Alfred Rosenberg studied architecture in Riga and later in 1944 addressed him with a letter about his arrested Gestapo son Gabrielus. In response, Zamkalnis even received verbal assurances from Rosenberg that his son would soon be released.
The original “pushers” of Landsbergis’s ideas and actively practicing Nazis in present-day Lithuania are Julius Pank, leader of the political party Union of Nationalists (Tautininkų sąjunga), his associate Richardas Čekutis and their other associates and like-minded people. They are the ones who organize the aforementioned February 16 marches and March 11 marches, numerous actions of nationalist-minded youth, various xenophobic events. At the same time, they are resourceful and “creative”. For example, in the Vilnius march of 11 nationalists in March 2014, their “know-how” can be considered as a stylized “bloody head” impaled with an inscription of 3 letters: PTN, hinting that the Russian president’s name is encrypted in this word. ("NewsBalt" covered this trick, see the link to news to the left of this text).
By the way, Punk is running for mayor of Vilnius in the upcoming 1 March 2015 municipal elections. In this regard, he stated that he was proud to be white. In his election questionnaire, the mayoral candidate wrote:
“In life I always strive to be guided by two slogans:“ God, Homeland and neighbor ”and“ Thank you, Lord, for being born white. ”
According to him, Vilnius, headed by him, will be “a Lithuanian, safe, cozy and family-friendly city”.
Thus, against the background of events in Ukraine, the political elite ruling in Lithuania has fully revealed all of its cards. The direct and explicit support of the openly Nazi Bendery forces in Kiev demonstrated the direct "soul kinship" of the Vilnius and Kiev leaders who were in power.
Nazism can have a threatening, bestial, cannibalistic appearance. However, at the same time, it can be refined, and even intellectual. In all European countries, powerful Nazi organizations functioned in the interwar period. Not some “marginals” participated in their activities, but the political and intellectual elite of that time. Not always and not everywhere the “Nazi case” comes to the horrors of concentration camps, gas chambers and the Holocaust. But always someone is appointed to the role of the Jews.
In modern Lithuania, it seems, the trend is such that a similar role is prepared for the Russian-speaking minority. Essentially, for him, under the influence of anti-Russian politics and Russophobic public position, a certain information-psychological ghetto begins to take shape.
About the author. Mikhail Bugakov, 62 of the year. Candidate of Philosophy. He defended himself at the Leningrad State University. A.A. Zhdanov. Previously, he worked in Vilnius in teaching positions, including at the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute. He conducts wide public activities, is the deputy chairman of the Socialist Popular Front of Lithuania. He has publications on the development of management and business. He published several poetic collections of his poems. Lithuanian citizen.
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