Lithuania Stop

The 1st in November is very different comparing to most Western Europe’s countries. In Western Europe most people celebrate the Halloween - the festival of masks and fear. Of course, the fear is also fun at Halloween.

Surprisingly, or maybe not, the Halloween is different in Lithuania. It is not a festival but the time of peace and accumulation to to honour dead people. Lithuanians, mostly older people, do not understand any festivals at this day. This is not acceptable for them.

However, nowadays, youth want to follow Western habits and start celebrating the Halloween.

I might be odd but I would like to stay with our old habits then to follow Western culture.

On October 26th Lithuanian people have elected new parliament.  The party of social democrats (ex communist)  lost and counts its last days on rule. People were pissed on obviously corruption which this party proclaimed. The biggest affair was a bargain which let to build nuclear power-station to one company without any public contest. This company is called VP Market. It controls the biggest net of supermarkets in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It also controls electricity supply. Now, everything is under one company’s control. This company is pure Lithuanian and in the beginning it has earned most of its money by doing bad things: VAT affairs, cheating on suppliers. They are very smart, they find gaps in law and use them. This bunch of gamblers are responsible for destroying small business companys. They can buy anybody. Law is also created for them. It is not normal at all and in any other West European country it never could happen.

People were pissed of this company also and maybe that’s why many of them have voted for TV celebrities. Ordinary people in Lithuania can’t do much. Parties before elections talk one language and after elections talk other language.

I think that all bad things come from ex governors, ex communists who ruled Lithuania in Soviet Union and now. Their thinking did not change much and understanding about some things is old school. This is bad and this must be unroot totally.

As written in Lithuanian press:

“Lithuanian Basketball Federation President Vladas Garastas may face a prison sentence after making a series of racist comments about American players in the Lithuanian league.

“Now about the negro playing in Zalgiris, I would expel him immediately. Zygimantas Janavicius is twice as good as he is… Education, there’s no education there, with only the blackies playing,” the Lithuanian-language daily Lietuvos Rytas cited Garastas, 76, as saying in reference to Zalgiris players from the United States.

After the interview, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to open a probe into the conduct of the LBF president.

Garastas circulated a public apology on Tuesday, saying his emotional statements were caused by poor health and intemperance. “I acknowledge that my comments were inappropriate, insulting and indefensible… I was impulsive and emotional to use the strong-worded statements to describe the persons of a different race,” said Garastas.” (taken from alfa.lt)

Well, please do not condemn this old guy because he is not used to black people at all. There are not many black people in Lithuania nowadays also.  Lithuania was never popular place for immigrants to settle down.