Author: News Desk

A surge of Lithuanians sign up for border militia and taken arms against fears the Russians will invade the Baltics next because they don’t trust Russia. The scars of Soviet occupation run deep in this part of Europe. Tens of thousands of Lithuanians were forcibly deported to gulags in Siberia and the far north by the Soviets in the 1940s and 1950s. It is reported that around 30,000 Lithuanian prisoners perished in the forced labour camps. Lithuanians sign up for border militia So, when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Grudzinskas joined Lithuania’s century-old volunteer militia — the Riflemen — and took…

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