On the 5th of August, the Lithuanian paper "Lietuvos Rytas" published a report of a young journalist Agne Drumjalite from Slovenia. A large group of young Lithuanian hitch-hikers travels along the route Vilnius - Istanbul. They become acquainted with various people, customs, museums, and cities along the way. After Poland, Austria, and Slovenia their track will go through Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece.

Our commentary: Lithuanian boys and girls do not need visas and permits. They are citizens of democratic Europe. Their fathers bravely stood up for the independence of their motherland from the alien Moscow yoke during 1988-91 period and provided the civilized development of Lithuania. The pro-Moscow regime in the occupied Belarus, however, offers our youth a different path: Belarusian Patriotic Union of Youth under a Soviet-red flag, KGB and denunciations, Stalin and “Komsomol detachments” in Siberia – all of that without visa too, of course, but at a different cost to our people. For how long will our nation live patiently and bear the injustice under this antediluvian Moscow dictatorship?

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Juri Marozau