It's all just a little bit of history repeating

Zayde Lang left Lithuania to avoid the Russians and being conscripted into the Russian army.

I don't expect a lot to be the same in Lithuania from the time of my great-grandparents and great-great. But there's one thing that seems to persist (in all the Baltics, actually): a fairly widespread hatred/dislike of the Russians and what they forced onto the Baltic peoples and the politic pressures they still enact.

Except now, the states are independent.

Still, it's less than a generation since that happened (in 1990/1991) and it takes time to wash Russia out of one's hair.