Lithuania across the throat
Photo: @lt_mfa_stratcom The whole history of the relationship between Lithuania and Moscow is the eternal struggle of freedom with slavery. Lithuania was the Moscow princes across the throat even when it was a great principality and did not want to turn into a barn - and Moscow desperately wanted to become a barn, but so it remained. This Lithuanian spirit of freedom and mutual respect went, by the way, to the benefit of not only the most modern Lithuania.