Ancestors

Written by Aras Pranckevičius on 2025-01-18 at 15:37

Some of Soviet times brutalist monuments are actually impressive. Here's one close to where I live (there's a tiny human for scale). This was built in 1984 near a fortress where about 45 thousand (!) Jewish people were killed during WWII.

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Written by Aras Pranckevičius on 2025-01-18 at 15:39

...now of course, in USSR times the Soviets conveniently forgot that they themselves have forcibly deported ~130 thousand Lithuanians to Siberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Lithuania). "Gee I wonder how one would build railroads and gas pipelines far out in Siberia?" -- through 20th century slavery, more or less.

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Toot

Written by Aras Pranckevičius on 2025-01-18 at 15:41

...my own grandmother did not end up in Siberia only because by the time they rounded up her whole family and loaded them up into cattle wagons, she was away at her friend's house.

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Descendants

Written by Neil Henning on 2025-01-18 at 16:26

@aras we truly don’t know how good we have it man 😢

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Written by Aras Pranckevičius on 2025-01-18 at 16:34

@neilhenning my wife’s grandfather, shortly after Covid started: “so what? when WWII started we also had schools closed!”. Puts things a bit in perspective…

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Written by Tomcat on 2025-01-18 at 16:56

@aras Polish and German villages in Siberia — they appeared before the Soviet regime.

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