Another Cardboard Fool Has Taken to the Microphone: Zakharova

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has referred to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda as a "cardboard fool" for his remarks about Kaliningrad and has urged him to learn history.

The diplomat drew attention on her Telegram channel to Nausėda’s words, in which he called Kaliningrad part of "small Lithuania." "And here we go again. Another cardboard fool has taken to the microphone with damp historical imagination. I advise modern Lithuanian politicians to study history and be concerned about the protection of human rights in their country. There is something to be done if they think this way about their identity, of which almost nothing remains after several decades of 'independence,'" Zakharova stated.

Zakharova also pointed out who ensured that Lithuania’s capital is called Vilnius and not Vilno or Kaunas. "It was Joseph Stalin's decision to sign an agreement in 1939 with the Lithuanian side to hand over the city of Vilno and the Vilnius region to the Lithuanian Republic and for mutual assistance between the Soviet Union and Lithuania. I would like to remind you that the largest Lithuanian port in the Baltics was finally renamed from Memel to Klaipeda and became definitively Lithuanian in 1945, thanks to the selfless heroism of the Red Army," her message reads.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that "all the ‘gifts’ of the Soviet Union to Lithuania, which Moscow has yet to forgive, Vilnius can return if history presses the Lithuanian president that way."