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That's a surprising way to frame what the Wikipedia page says. The ban was part of a russification attempt. One of the stated goals, on the page you linked, is
by taneliv 3y ago
That's a surprising way to frame what the Wikipedia page says. The ban was part of a russification attempt. One of the stated goals, on the page you linked, is "Replace Lithuanian parish schools with Russian grammar schools". Up to that point, Lithuanian had not been written in the Cyrillic alphabet. Polish language was widely used, and its use of Latin alphabet had a huge inspiration on Lithuanian orthography.
To make my point stronger: I would call it a book ban, if English language books were illegal to write in the Latin alphabet, and only allowed in the Cyrillic alphabet. This would be consistent with the situation of Lithuanian language book ban (except it would not replace kindergarten and lower grades with Russian grammar schools).
Calling it a lie seems at the very least ignorant of the actual situation, or worse, willful twisting of history. If the former, I invite you to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_book_smugglers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_book_smugglers to find out on which day they are celebrated!
- gdy 3y agoI don't think it's me who is twisting history here
- taneliv 3y agoWell, everyone can read the Wikipedia pages and their references, and make their own minds. Our views are so fundamentally different that I see no reason to continue discussion.
- gdy 3y agoOk, let me elaborate. 'Banning all books on Lithuanian language' and 'banning books in Lithuanian language written in Latin alphabet and encouraging transition to books in Lithuanian language written in Cyrillic alphabet' are different things. Former would have had a goal of discontinuing written Lithuanian language and the latter had a goal of switching Lithuanian language from Latin to Cyrillic alphabet. Misrepresenting the latter as the former is a lie.
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- cassac 3y agoThe only thing important part is “these books are banned” and “these books are encouraged.” That you don’t care about the specifics says more about you than the ban.
- gdy 3y agoIt looks like I do care about specifics and you care only about 'important part'.
- georgeplusplus 3y agoI.e they only care about their viewpoint and no one else's