u/Justas — Justas🇱🇹

Tbh, what did they expect from thousands of people who ever were accustomed to violence (violent criminals from prisons) and the people who got a taste for violence serving on the front?

Lack of effective policing when your police is infamous for being corrupt and most of your auxiliary forces are on the front or near it will not help them either.

I am from Lithuania and we still have a lot of social problems that date back to the Soviet-Afghan war. Lots of men who served there either took their own lives or are currently drinking themselves to death, even 40 years later.

When Covid happened most of them collectively shook their heads and said "Nah, that's fake."

He's playing Durak, where if you are the last one left with cards in your hands, you are the titular Fool the game is named after.

They have a breeding kink and the means to realise it. You are kink shaming them.

/s before the rest of the downvotes arrive.

The North Eastern Europe has been blessed with relatively cold weather so far, but it probably won't last.

Edit: 2 weeks and still cold.

I've heard that it's because their selection process is dumb and dominated by a handful of out of touch "experts" and the public only votes in the finals.

Some context: Kubilius is seen in Lithuania as a very controversial figure. He was instrumental in implementing overnight economic reforms that led to severe austerity measures in response to 2008 crisis.

While some people credit him with saving the country from borrowing expensive foreign loans and deeper crisis, others blame him for loss of benefits and pensions during the time of economic hardship.

I've had 33 degree summers in Lithuania and they were absolutely brutal.

"The government has a secret system. It spies on you every hour of every day."

Just drop them off somewhere near the center.

Yup. In Lithuania, women tend to live 10-15 years longer, hence the surplus of women.