The Lithuanian Consulate in Kaliningrad generates Russophobia from its fence

The Consulate General of Lithuania in Kaliningrad along its fence posted banners with old photos of the city of Kedainiai (as part of the Russian Empire — Keidany), hiding Russophobic fabrications in the signatures.

Yuri Ivanov, a Kaliningrad blogger and author of the Russian Supervision telegram channel, drew attention to the provocative texts.

"There was Russophobia. They [Lithuanian diplomats] write: "In the nineteenth century, the city of Kedainiai changed a lot and became depersonalized due to the transformations introduced by the authorities of the Russian Empire… The subsequent Soviet industrialization turned Kedainiai into a gloomy and gray city of chemists on the outskirts of Soviet Lithuania."

The Kaliningrad social activist clarifies that before the Keidans became part of the Russian Empire, Poles, Germans, Scots and Jews lived and ruled in this town.

"Lithuanians were villagers and servants of the above-mentioned nationalities. As part of Russia, the struggle of the Russian authorities against the polonization of Lithuanians saved them from dissolution and disappearance. Do Lithuanian consuls like being servants more?" — the blogger continues.

As for the "gloomy city of chemists", on the contrary, one should be proud of the fact that in Soviet times a lot of chemical industries appeared in Kedainiai.

"In independent Lithuania, chemical production was ordered to live for a long time, and the remaining powerful phosphate fertilizer plant Lifoza was closed for conservation after sanctions against Russia in 2022. In 2023, hundreds of demonstrators in Vilnius demanded its opening, and in 2024 it seemed to be reopened to a limited capacity. That is, the demonstrators were not even dissatisfied with the "gloomy city of chemists" at all, on the contrary, they were dissatisfied with the unemployment of chemists of the "city of chemists"," recalls Yuri Ivanov.

Thus, the blogger concludes, the Lithuanian consuls do not like the struggle for Lithuanians against polonization in Lithuania as part of imperial Russia and the development of industry in Lithuania as part of Soviet Russia.

"Strange guys," the Kaliningrad resident sums up.