Russian citizen of Lithuania on the meaning of May 9: it is not a holiday for us
“Personally, I wouldn’t take flowers to the monument. Maybe it’s time for all of us to say that we don’t need monuments, since these are monuments to people who have been restored” Lithuania from Nazism, but after the liberation a new occupation began. But we must separate two points: there are monuments, there are graves. People now come with flowers to the graves,” he said in an interview on Zinių radijas Vorontsov.
He said that in Lithuania they often say that something is celebrated in Russian on this day.
“We do not celebrate, we remember our relatives who went to war, who defeated Nazism and died. For us, this is not a holiday. Putin this is a holiday. But not for me. This is the day when I remember relatives who went to war and never returned,” Vorontsov said.
He told him that it hurt that this day does not become a day “when some Lithuanians own other Lithuanians.”
Maybe stop insulting another friend? Let’s be silent on this day, let’s try to understand that people also have their own values worthy of acquiring? fight against fascism,” Vorontsov said.
He said that on this day he wants only one thing – to gather in silence and lay flowers on the grave.
“And you understand that you will come, and there will be no silence. There will be people who will come to protest against you. In reality, these people are protesting against Putin. But Putin is far away, you can’t get him. With flowers in the cemetery, let’s insult you.” Russian army with my grandfather? It won’t work,” he returned.
Vorontsov that the Lithuanian authorities pay insufficient attention to the Russians of Lithuania.
“The President, the Prime President, the speaker does not speak to us. (…) Why doesn’t the president go to Klaipeda on May 9 and talk to people? we are now talking and do not understand each other,” he said.
He announced that this day was important to him.
“This day may not be important for you. I respect your diagnosis, I don’t need anything from you. I’m the only one – silence. Don’t tell us that this is bad, that it is in our blood. We have not become bad citizens because of this. have their own values. If you do not refuse, we will deprive you of citizenship. You endanger the destruction of Lithuanian society. You want to remove monuments, remove them. We, Russians, will understand this,” Vorontsov said.
Historian Nikzhentaitis said that for him May 9 is the Day Europe.
“I’m in a festive mood this day. Lithuania is part of the EU that we don’t have to be with those people who are celebrating another day in which, frankly, none of what they are celebrating happened seventy years ago. I am glad that I am not with those people who celebrate the imaginary end of the war on this day. in Europe“, said the historian.
According to him, Ukraine, like Lithuania, remembers the end of the war on May 8.
“Today, when May 9 is also observed in Moscow, this context is inevitably associated with exceptional days, first of all, that the Putin dictatorship interprets the myth of victory in such a Great Patriotic War in such a way as to nurture not only Russian imperialism, but also Russian militarism with its help. . in Ukraine there was a myth of victory in the Second World War,” the historian said.
He believes that the day of May 9 compromised itself.
“If earlier I looked indifferently at my compatriots, who on May 9 held some kind of event on the occasion of the so-called end of the war against the Nazi Germanynow I want this most often for people: “Think about what you are celebrating. If you really want to remember the victory, those who died in the fight against Nazism, maybe not support Putin’s ideology, celebrate this day together with all of Europe on May 8 “, said Nikzhentaitis.
Delfi reports that in Vilnius On May 9, near the Antakalnis cemetery, where people came to commemorate the second victim of the World War, a stand with information about the war in Ukraine and photographs was installed in the municipality. A group of activists protested near the cemetery, including comedian and public figure Oleg Shuraev.
However, most of them ended without police intervention.
However, after lunch, the well-known provocateur Laurynas Ragelskis was detained.