Worldfocus » Joseph Krings http://worldfocus.org International News, Videos and Blogs Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:12:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Lithuanians cling to their language to protect culture http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/04/08/lithuanians-cling-to-their-language-to-protect-culture/4844/ http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/04/08/lithuanians-cling-to-their-language-to-protect-culture/4844/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:11:41 +0000 Worldfocus http://worldfocus.org/?p=4844 Lithuania, a nation of more than three million people, was the very first of the former Soviet republics to declare its independence from the Soviet Union.

During the 50 years of Soviet occupation, Lithuanians clung to their language as a not-so-quiet form of rebellion. Today, as Worldfocus correspondent Daljit Dhaliwal and producers Sally Garner and Ara Ayer report, they want to protect it — not from an occupying force, but from other languages.

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