I’m Choking
Lithuania on Nationalist Wrong Track
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
We live in an age of scepticism, of free, critical thinking, and global thinking. In Lithuania, however, the intellectual leadership laments Euro-collaboration and indoctrination under the banner of globalisation. It preaches intolerance towards minorities and entrenches itself behind a wall of xenophobia and ostensible national pride. Poles, Jews, Russians, and, of late, the United States are considered enemy forces. This attitude is also a legacy of the Soviet era, when people were inoculated with a primitive mentality that included xenophobia and hatred of “cosmopolitans.”
(Osteuropa 1/2011, pp. 97–110)