[Raj_Copi_Jin]

A bit puzzled. Is Lithuania now a Hindu nation?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137650
From news article:
The Nazi swastika is apparently not considered illegal in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda, despite former assumptions that the symbol was not to be displayed nationwide, a common legislative ruling in Eastern Europe.

A local court has ruled the sign is a centuries-old symbol that depicts the sun. The judge in the case, which lasted three months, justified his ruling by adding that the symbol is found on numerous historic artifacts.
The case involved four men who brandished swastikas at the city's national Independence Day parade.

“It is not a Nazi attribute, but a valuable symbol of the Baltic culture, an ancient sign of our ancestors, which had been stolen from them and treacherously used by other peoples,” said one of the witnesses for the defense quoted by RT, Russian television's English news channel.
According to the IA Regnum news agency, swastikas have been displayed at least twice before in Lithuania, both times without legal consequence – once on May Day, and the second time in front of the presidential palace in Vilna (Vilnius), the nation's capital.

Two years ago, on Lithuanian Independence Day, neo-Nazis marched down Vilna's central boulevard waving specially modified Lithuanian swastikas, and chanting “Juden raus!” (Jews out!”). This year, the slogan was “Lithuania for Lithuanians!”

[Slonopotam845]

Lithuania has many other issues, like half of the work force working outside the country, and this just adds to stupidy.

[Lillie_Steins]

Lithuania? Is that a kind of pizza?

[Beerinkol]

I can assure you there is far better pizza in Finland . They do like their fish up there though. I'm actually set to visit Vilnus in a few months oddly enough.

[tgs]

I've been to Vilnus multiple times, in fact to entire Lithuania - to Klaipeda (on the Baltic), Kaunas (Kovno), Shaulai (they have a pretty cool medieval castle there)... anyways, it's a poor country which for some reason is in the EU.

[LottiFurmann]

Lithuania's relative poverty owes to the decades of Soviet rule first and foremost. They are fundamentally confused people after the WW2, like other Baltic nations- hence these ludicrous swastika decisions.
Note that display of hammers and sickles raises no objections...
I've been to Lithuania many times, the potential is there, but like East Germany or any other ex-Soviet block - G-d knows how long it takes to ditch this inheritance.
Used to be the biggest and the most liberal country in Europe, home to some of the most prominent Jewish communities ...

[Drugmachine]

Lithuania recently held some sort of WW2 conference that refused to note Nazi atrocities and instead condemned the Soviet persecutions. I think this is similar to the Jobbik resurgence in Hungary. Neo Nazism is very popular right now.

[Fegasderty]

It is in the East - the result of a historical distortion when nazism was destroyed and condemned in court while its twin brother communism has so far escaped.
The Lithuanians did suffer from the Soviets more, no arguments there yet they saw no justice either. No justice for Katyn, no justice for Prague spring-68... what do you expect?