If you want to send an ask to Curonia, you can send it to @ask-curonia
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For those who missed the peonycats drama and are confused now: here, here, here, and here (the main post)
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I’m not gonna answer to asks for a while, I have lots of studies, please be patient.🙏
Saulės ugnies dievas
Contestants at the first longest hair competition in Lithuania, 1992.
Me when people draw Baltic symbols and call it Slavic // Me when russians draw Ukrainian folklore
Honestly, it always amazed me how in Ukrainian society, we spread awareness about occupation of Ichkeriya, Sakartvelo, Crimea, even indigenous Siberian people - but when it comes to Belarus, our Baltic neighbour who was literally shot dead and russified not so long ago, who also had heavy repressions and artificial famines by russians - in fact, it still is repressed by russia through Lukashenko's regime and victims of repressions are MY PEERS EVEN - then suddenly Belarus is "Slavic russia's sister". And it was like this even before 2022 russian invasion of Ukraine. I really don't get it. The similarities between Belaruthian culture/language and Lithuanian are, in fact, so noticeable, that russia tried MULTIPLE TIMES to sew them together and label LITHUANIA "Slavic russia's sister", TOO. AND LITHUANIA IS NOT SLAVIC AT ALL, IT IS BALTIC. BALTIC. ALWAYS HAS BEEN. WHY THE HELL BELARUS IS SLAVIC, THEN. That's also why Lithuanians nowadays really don't want to have connections with Belarus - they don’t want to fall under russian occupation again.
People believe that if we sacrifice Belarus to russia then we will be safe?? It didn't prevent russia's invasion of Ukraine. The first step of decolonizing russia, the first step of returning back our safety is accepting the fact that Belarus is not "Slavic russia's sister".
Some of these costumes are Lithuanian, some are Belaruthian.
Thank you for the addition
Although I don’t think that Lithuania acts for selfish purposes “for the sake of money and fame.” Unfortunately, because of russia, Belarus poses a threat to its neighbors… But this could be used. E.g., to say that yes, Belarus has always been Litva, simply slavicized (which is true), return, prodigal son, to your native bosom, we will free you from the russian fascists.
"And the Lord also said to Raphael: 'Bind Azâzal hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness: make a hole in the desert in Dûdâel, and throw him in. Place upon him rough and jagged rocks, cover him with darkness, and let him remain there forever, and cover his face so he may not see light." Enoch 10:4, 5
