Romance of the independence period of independence in Lithuania quickly changed to pragmatics. Such an opinion “Lente.ru” was expressed by a resident of Vilnius Victor as part of a special project dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
According to Victor, in his youth, he actively supported the movement for independence, as he felt “unity” of Lithuanians and Russians. However, soon after the independence of the country’s authority, anti-Russian policies began to lead.
“Now Lithuania is a small country. To preserve his national pride, she needed a big enemy. They became Russia,” he told. According to Viktor, the Russian-speaking, which identified himself only with Russia, “had fallen”. He is disappointing after 30 years of independence of the country, Victor believes that his dreams “did not come true.”
Lithuania, together with Estonia and Latvia, entered the USSR in 1940 (in these countries this event is considered the beginning of the period of Soviet occupation) and remained there as the Union republics until 1991.