Lithuania's press sees emigrants as traitors

Over the past few years many Lithuanians have left their country to seek work abroad. For a long time this subject was hushed up, however now it's slowly working its way into the Lithuanian media, but in a negative way, as Monika Bonckute notes. "Anyone who leaves Lithuania for reasons other than a holiday is seen as a traitor. Emigrants are generally not regarded as individuals but as a homogenous mass that has failed to prove its love for its native country - as if life in Lithuania were something sacred."

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