They! It’s a miraculous term, homo lithuanicus’ magic word. It’s always them, not us at all. We’ve nothing to do with it. A genuine homo sovieticus is obliged to say: our revolution, our victory, our government, we did it. A genuine homo lithuanicus says: their revolution, their government, they did it. And we’ve nothing to do with it. By no means is this merely a lexical nuance; it’s a key marker of an inner philosophy. Homo lithuanicus couldn’t even explain who “they” are. They aren’t us. We’ve nothing to do with it. The greatest downfall of the state doesn’t worry him: they fell, but we’ve
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