Wind from the East at the rostrum of the Seimas

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Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė, Deputy Chair of the Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrat Political Group

2019 m. march 20 d. 11:04

Some Signatories to the Act of Independence were struck by the wind from the East several decades ago. Unfortunately, the damage is irreversible. Some of them wanted to wait a moment for something and refrain from ‘irritating’ the greater power on that fatal day of 11 March 1990. Witnesses say that Egidijus Bičkauskas also marked time for some reason. Anyway, that was long ago. However, it seems that the wind from the East (in other words the wind from the Kremlin) is seeping through Mr Bičkauskas’ grey raincoat today, too. The wind is so strong that it confuses not only his legs, but also his thoughts.

Some say that we should avoid discussion or talk about such people in order to keep them from the limelight, but I cannot remain silent when somebody of the kind keeps speaking out from the rostrum of the Seimas. Yes, it is both an advantage and a shortcoming of democracy. Except democracy lies at the foundation of the statehood while certain ta