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Line 12: Lithuania fell victim to the same plague as its partner, Poland: every noble wanted to run the country, which caused quite enough trouble until some of the nobles were bought and became convinced that Germans and Russians should run the country. In 1795, the Polish-Lithuanian state was dissolved. All of Lithuania as it was then (the vast majority of it as it is now, the Klaipeida/Memelgebiet still being part of Germany at the time) went to Russia. This wasn't so fun, especially for the Jews. The end of [[World War ~~One~~I]] saw Lithuania become independent, first as a German puppet-kingdom (which was better than nothing), then as a republic, but there were problems. One was that Lithuania's only seaport was a German-speaking city (Memel/Klaipeida) that had been part of the German Empire until Lithuania basically invaded it. The Germans, though then powerless, were not pleased. The bigger one was that Vilnius was the ancient capital of Lithuania, and had always been. It was Lithuania's greatest city and always would be. Any Lithuanian could tell you these facts, and the fact that everybody in the city who wasn't Polish was Jewish deterred them not in the slightest. The Polish army, however, did. And the biggest of all was that the country was taken over by a nasty fascist dictator named Smetona. In 1939, the Nazis and the Commies were looking down their shopping list to see if there was anything they had missed above the big underlined "Poland". There was: for Germany, Memel, for the USSR, the rest of Lithuania. Germany used military force to force a handover of the port. Shortly afterwards, World War 2 began and the Lithuanians decided that it was time to join the jump on Poland and <s>steal their land</s> reclaim our ancient territory bandwagon. Line 24: Lithuania is now a [[NATO]] and [[European Union]] member, having become a <s>prosperous democracy</s> religiously themed oligarchy under democracy's name and put all the horrors and emnities of the past behind. Well, except the one with Russia, but most people would say that's mostly Russia's fault. Lithuania recently came to European Union's attention again with its laws banning information about sex and sexual minorities. For further information, here's the country's [~~http~~https://~~www~~web.archive.org/web/20200205133554/http://lrv.lt/ web site] and the [[wikipedia:Lithuania\|page on That Other Wiki]]. '''Lithuania in fiction''' Line 34: Lithuania [[Moe Anthropomorphism\|himself]] from [[Axis Powers Hetalia]]. There are, in fact, ~~[[Where Are You From\|~~Lithuanian tropers]]. [[Portal: The 4th Millennium Franchise\|One of which owns a fairly large fictional franchise.]] Line 42: {{reflist}} [[Category:Useful Notes/Europe]] [[Category:Lithuania]]▼ [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] ▲[[Category:~~Lithuania~~{{PAGENAME}}]]