An Answer to the Handful of Lithuanians Who Did Not Vote for Not Taking Away of the Passports of Other Lithuanians

 

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     God forgive them because they do not understand what they are doing.

 

     If the Jews did that, there would be nothing left of them. Lithuania is/will be weaker without Lithuanians, who emigrated.

 

     For example, I made a life in the US, and I don't get the benefits of US citizenship, and the further I go, the harder it gets. Children, travel, the rights of a stateless immigrant are much less, and I risk being deported if... (drunk driving, wrongly accused, some official will hang on to wrongly filled out documents, etc. etc.). Not taking local citizenship becomes a burden and too much of a risk. I don't know how many more years I will wait. But take away the citizenship, the desire to spend summers in Lithuania instead of Spain/France, to buy a homestead/apartment, to bring friends, to invest in business in Lithuania, will quickly go away. Success in getting rid of Lithuanians living abroad who love Lithuania will not make Lithuania truly "stronger" and more united."

 

If you decided to destroy yourself, then you will destroy yourself, you were told that "let us our unity bloom". You can't.