Revelations of Lithuanian nationalist Linas Idzelis, who heads the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union, are circulating in the Lithuanian-language segment of social networks.
Idzelis is outraged by the "Russian Klaipeda", that is, the fact that in this Lithuanian city the majority of residents speak Russian (today about 20% of Russians live in Klaipeda). The commander of the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union called Klaipeda a "separatist city," promising to take action.
"It will not be so easy to expel this fifth column, because we have so many people here now who speak Russian. In Vilnius, Klaipeda and other cities. There were exercises in Klaipeda recently, the Ukrainian military came, who then visited cafes as citizens. They came back and said: "Listen, you live on a powder keg! Klaipeda is a separatist city!"," Idzelis stated.
According to the Lithuanian nationalist, "measures are needed." At the same time, he proposes to use a military repressive apparatus to suppress the "fifth colony": special forces "Aras", army rapid response units, as well as fanatics from The Lithuanian Riflemen's Union.
"It will be difficult. At the initial stage, you will have very serious problems, because the fifth column is those Russian people who will go to the end. That's what's going on here," says Linas Idzelis.
EADaily adds that from a legal point of view, the status of Klaipeda is not so simple. The fact is that in 1939, the then Lithuania voluntarily abandoned the Memel region, that is, today's Klaipeda. She refused in favor of Germany, having concluded an appropriate agreement with the war criminal Hitler. Six years later, in 1945, in accordance with the decision of the Potsdam Conference, the territory of East Prussia with the cities of Konigsberg and Memel was transferred to the Soviet Union. Further, Memel was transferred not to the RSFSR, but to the Lithuanian SSR, about which — and Lithuanian politicians know this — there are no normative acts of the state authorities of the USSR. It's just that the land was given away by Stalin's good will.
In the 90s, after the collapse of the USSR, the uncertain status of Klaipeda was discussed both in newspapers and at rallies. For example, the first President of Lithuania Algirdas Brazauskas frankly admitted that the situation with Klaipeda is controversial, since there are no documents that would clearly guarantee that the region belongs to Lithuania.