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- wreckosaurus, on 07/05/2008, -15/+66***** russian douche bags, they still think Lithuania is theirs. My wife is Lithuanian, and I've experienced it first hand. Russians living in Lithuania refuse to learn the language, they demand that everyone speak to them in russian. Even if they do know the language they won't speak it. I've seen numerous conversations in restaurants where russians will speak in russian, the waitress will reply in Lithuanian, and the russian will respond in russian. They're incredibly arrogant and unbelievably nationalistic, one guy wanted to fight me because I didn't know russian.
- Karolismatul, on 07/05/2008, -4/+45Pfft, this wasn't even a big deal, compared to what happened in Estonia a while ago. The attacks did not go very far, and were not extremely damaging.
Just showed what pricks the Russians are, they still haven't crawled out of their USSR mentality. Gogo KGB. In you we trust. ;) They still think Lithuania is their property. Living in Lithuania myself, it sometimes seems I'm living in Russia. Arrogant Russians refuse to learn or speak our language. Sometimes even the service personnel speaks first in Russian to you, then switches to Lithuanian. Although I understand Russian and speak it well, I will not sink to such a low level of having to speak Russian to employees who work and live in MY country.
Change your mentality, adapt and we will accept you as equal citizens in Lithuania. Even if you have trouble speaking Lithuanian, we will try to understand and value your effort in speaking our language. Get off your high horse or get the ***** out of my country, you lost ownership of it 18 years ago. - poidh, on 07/05/2008, -6/+27Ah, I see the Russians are embarrassing themselves yet again.
- QuirozB, on 07/05/2008, -1/+20Soviet-era? A red scare?
- Selfmadecelo, on 07/05/2008, -9/+27Sounds like America dealing with Mexico....
- Sawta, on 07/05/2008, -4/+21Only difference being that the Russian understood Lithuanian.
- steelaz, on 07/05/2008, -1/+18Comment on original article: "There are no stateless people in Lithuania- every resident regardless the nationality was given Lithuanian citizenship back in 1991. There are stateless people in Latvia and Estonia, but all they have to do is pass simple exam of Latvian/Estonian language, and they would get the passport. The problem is that those people refuse to speak the language of the state they live in, and prefer to remain stateless."
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -5/+21This is a hype,Finnish hackers are much more talented than these commies and don't take credit.
- xdvx, on 07/05/2008, -5/+18This is lame. Some guys hacked few poor CMS sites and our government thought it's a big deal.
- 1longtime, on 07/05/2008, -6/+19Maybe they should hack their own government websites, Russia's government is a complete failure.
Never before has a country gone from super power to third world country so rapidly, and the economic collapse is caused by political opposition to globalism and the Russian society's extensive xenophobia. Maybe these hackers can clean their own house first. - rz8472, on 07/05/2008, -1/+13Que?
- Aquashark, on 07/05/2008, -5/+15Russian nationalism can suck my ballz after ***** up so many countries with their influence.
- x1soundgarden1x, on 07/05/2008, -0/+9Was I the only one that thought this article was about Russian hackers altering goverment systems with the classic video game translation error "all your base are belong to us?" Seriously, this article had nothing to do with that and the title for this is pretty misleading as it's not game related in the least. Anyone else feel mislead...abused even :-(
- poidh, on 07/05/2008, -4/+12I'm not Lithuanian, but sir, I salute you.
- karolisonline, on 07/05/2008, -1/+9ok. what they did was not very impressive. they just hacked one data center (maybe russian admin worked there..) and all hacked sites were from same data center. not very serious web-sites were hacked. our government is using internal data network so as long as it is not hacked I think we are safe. and I never heard russians hacking something serious. what they managed to do in Estonia was denial of service attacks - they didn't even managed to hack any sites in real there. i think china went a bit further with this stuff than russia.
- rakous, on 07/05/2008, -3/+10Sounds like Mexico dealing with America...
- Atomic1fire, on 07/05/2008, -2/+8a red scar is more like it
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -4/+10In Soviet Russia, Soulja Boy can suck my ***** dick
- pbone, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6HACK THE WORLD
- feliks2, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6For the most part thats right, but for some people it gets more complicated than that. My cousin's dad was born in Latvia, speaks decent Latvian, is ethnically half and half Russian and Latvian I think, but he still had lots of trouble getting a Latvian citizenship.
- janetaSiri, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6I'm sincerely sorry that the Russians you have met in Lithuania are less than Enlightened. But please do not Generalize the people of Russia Based on those few. I am a Russian Immigrant myself, and the people I know In Russia are not the same 'pricks' that you know in Lithuania. They are Intelligent, kind people, who are not in the USSR mentality, nor do they support the KGB.
- feliks2, on 07/05/2008, -1/+6In Latvia there is a law that all firemen, policemen, etc. have to speak Latvian fluently. Most people that work in the service industry (store clerks, bankers and whatnot) are also required to speak Latvian fluently. Most service- based companies also require their employees to speak decent Russian too, as a courtesy. Maybe Lithuania should try something like that. Maybe not the Russian part, as there is a higher percentage of Russians in Latvia than Lithuania, bu still.
- feliks2, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5I've been going to Latvia for a month in summer the last four years (born there) and the language problem doesn't seem as bad as in Lithuania. Although things are steadily meging to Latvian only, the vast majority of people still speak both Russian and Latvian (I speak Russian), and I have never had any problems communicating with people, whether on the street or in a store. Two years ago though I went to Lithuania briefly and just ordering food was hard because from what I experienced most people spoke only Lithuanian.
- Snokage, on 07/05/2008, -2/+7Sort of like, immigrants in America still speak their home languages and want others to speak that language to them as well?
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -5/+9Yeah they should honor the same people who sent them to concentration camps and stole their land.
Stalin wasn't any better than Hitler.
Oh, and rUSSIA sucks ass. - overt, on 07/05/2008, -4/+8Haha. You idiot.
- extr3mer, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4http://www.informacijosapsauga.lt/wp-content/uploa ...
All sites were replaced with this. - steelaz, on 07/05/2008, -2/+6How is it racism to ban Soviet symbols? Lithuania experienced both Soviet and Nazi regimes and one is no better then the other. You wouldn't want to have German swastikas hanging around in Moscow.
- cgbspender, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5I wonder if there are now animated flying penises on the websites ...
- Lazydriver, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4That, and just overall corruption aka free reign mafias.
- viskas, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5Have you been here and know what your are talking about? I live in Daugavpils, second largest city in Latvia, and I can't go to doctor, barber, market, drive taxi etc. or use any other public service and speak Latvian and hope I'll get service I wanted. I.e., I can try, but if it's not a trivial message I'll be most likely forced to switch to Russian unless other person is Latvian himself. Which is about 20% percent here. So what pressure are you talking about??? I feel totally pressured in my own country being unable to use my mother language here. Well, of course, I have an option to move to another city here, but why? Who's pressuring whom?
- calantus, on 07/05/2008, -4/+8sounds like Americans dealing with Americans.
- lilmoder, on 07/05/2008, -2/+6:guy from Latvia:
Russians still think that Latvia is their biggest enemy or something :/ - tensvb, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5Who alters the history? Russians started World War II along with nazis in 1939 (both countries invaded Poland). In all countries in the world it's in the history books. But in Russian version of the history WWII has started in 1941, when Hitler decided to attack his previous ally Stalin.
- InsideRide, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5All your base are belong to us.
- etx313, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5Silly Russians...
- Saad85, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3obviously not, jackass
- TheSnuffster, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3*PLANET
- karolisonline, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3:Lithuanian:
No, I think they pretty hate all of us, because we are better than those russians. Even during occupation baltic states were more developed than other states of soviet union. And after all, russia is powerful only for about 200 years and before that they were zero that was fuc*ed from all sides and we were one of the biggest countries in all Europe. They are sour only because they are result of over rated democracy that was second in the world (and maybe was a mistake)... - pbone, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3oops
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2 ot the one above ..sounds like the french when there anywhere but france..
- Atomic1fire, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Nationalism is not horrible
Its just the concept of having pride in ones nation
saying its a bad thing is like saying that its bad to be happy in a baseball team when your team wins, because the other team lost - CAisBacK, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3C'mon Russia.. you hackers wanna do something impressive? Do the same thing to the US.. i don't know how about the CIA or FBI sites???
- Atomic1fire, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Except the mexicans dont understand english
An American tourist in Mexico will probably understand more Spanish then a Mexican illegal immigrant in the united states of america would know english - punkcat, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3read the article please.
- tehknotte, on 07/05/2008, -3/+5Also the French in Canada.
- t2t2, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2:Estonian:
No, they think we are because of Estonian war of independence...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_War_of_Indep ... - Nettles9, on 07/05/2008, -3/+5All blind Russian insults aside, the new Lithuanian law is worthy of a good facepalm or two. I think it's good to make a statement like these hackers did, but since everyone is generalising Russians, surely this won't logistically apply to the conversation.
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -1/+3dude the russians were allied with the germans in the beginning.. go read a history book..
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