Happy Lithuania

Many thousands of Lithuanians have left their home country to seek work in Great Britain or Ireland. Andrius Uzkalnis writes that these emigrants should neither be ridiculed in their host countries nor condemned as traitors in their home country. "Everyone should live where he feels happiest, where he is most successful, has most space and the greenest garden. I know of no nation that has died out because of emigration. Ireland itself experienced an unprecedented wave of emigration during the years of famine. The emigration of the Lithuanians is nothing in comparison. The Armenians have not died out despite their terrible past and the loss of half their country, even though today more Armenians live abroad than in their home country. Their language and writing have survived. The more happy Lithuanians there are, regardless of where they live, the happier Lithuania will be."

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