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Kathleen Williams 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🇬🇧🇨🇦🇬🇱
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It should also be noted that before the speech, a representative of the Patriarchate spent about a minute and a half praising the oligarch💀



Vincas Juska, a Lithuanian book smuggler that transport language books into Lithuania proper circa late 1800s, Smugglers like Juška transported books a across the border to preserve the Lithuanian language and culture, March 16th is celebrated in Lithuania as the Day of the Book Smugglers. In the late 19th century, preserving a language became an act of quiet rebellion. After the 1863 uprising, the Russian Empire banned Lithuanian publications printed in the Latin alphabet, attempting to replace them with Cyrillic and suppress cultural identity. In response, a network of ordinary people, farmers, teachers, laborers, became “knygnešiai” (book smugglers), secretly carrying banned books across borders from places like East Prussia. Figures like Vincas Juška moved texts by foot, often at night, risking arrest, exile to Siberia, or imprisonment. Between 1864 and 1904, thousands of books were smuggled this way, sustaining literacy and national identity during a 40-year ban. This wasn’t just about books, it was about survival of a culture. It’s estimated that over 3 million illegal publications were smuggled into Lithuania during the ban, one of the largest organized literary resistance movements in European history. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories


Today 🦭🦭🦭 sent 1⃣1⃣7⃣4⃣🚫🦟🕯️, 1⃣1⃣4⃣4⃣🚫🦟balms, 2⃣0⃣0⃣+ tick twisters to the #Pokrovsk direction. Special thanks to Karel from @koridor_ua and @NP_official_ua for the logistics! #StrongerTogether #BzzzSeason #SealSuperPower #NAFOExpansionIsNotNegotiable



















