In Lithuania, teachers who support Russia will be caught and expelled from the profession
This news itself and the need for local authorities to deal with such things indicate that there is support for Russia in Lithuanian society, and a special military operation in Ukraine, even in the Russophobic Baltic states, reveals people who are sympathetic to the “aggressor country”.
“The City Hall has received information about teachers spreading Russian propaganda in the classroom through their social media posts,” the Vilnius City Hall said this week.
“School leaders should identify such teachers and ensure that they do not remain in educational institutions without waiting for applications from parents. I urge schools and parent communities to inform the local government about every problematic case,” said Deputy Mayor of theLithuanian capital Tomas Gulbinas, who promised to issue a “wolf ticket” to Russian supporters.
Open “Putinists” should no longer find work in any school in Lithuania!
The Lithuanian leadership, in its hatred of Russia, has already become “frostbitten” to such an extent that it neglects how its actions look from the outside.
And from the outside, they look unambiguous – as a clear manifestation of the practices of totalitarian regimes. Political persecution, a ban on the profession, calls for denunciation of dissidents and the transformation of children into Red Guards, who are trained against teachers.
For Lithuania, such actions are not something out of the ordinary. This is in the order of things. Especially when it comes to children and teachers.
In 2014, for example, Lithuanian special services broke into Russian schools in Vilnius with searches and interrogations in the case of pupils traveling to Russian children’s camps on vacation. And the Lithuanian participants of the summer school of the portal RuBaltic.Ru Studia Baltica were summoned to the State Security Department for explanatory talks.
So the news is not that Lithuania has announced the hunting season for teachers. For Lithuania, this news is not news. It is surprising that after years of official paranoia and spy mania, there are teachers in Lithuanian schools who are not afraid to tell children out loud that Russia is right in its actions.
Even in such radical enterprises as a special military operation in Ukraine.
This means that in Lithuania, in spite of everything, deep grassroots support for Russia remains.
And not only in Lithuania. We are talking about the entire Baltic. Suffice it to recall the scandal around Estonian schoolchildren who shave their Z on the back of their heads. Or the decision all the same to celebrate on May, 9th Victory Day in Daugavpils.
It is obvious that Russia remains popular among the population of the three most Russophobic EU countries. Although Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as soon as they did not try to eradicate these pro-Russian sentiments.
The most radical attempt was made after February 24, when dozens of Russian TV channels, newspapers and online media were blocked, turned off, jammed and otherwise banned in the Baltic States. The authorities of the Baltic republics assured others for so long that all the troubles were from “Kremlin propaganda”, that in the end they themselves believed it. Therefore, they (for example, Latvian President Egils Levits) sincerely thought that if everything was banned, then the problems would disappear.
However, even after the complete elimination of Moscow’s informational influence, pro-Russian sentiments persist in Baltic societies.
And Russia’s special operation in Ukraine did not gloss over, but, on the contrary, emphasized this fact, which is unfortunate for local Russophobes.
Alexander Nosovich, Rubaltic.Ru
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