Victor Sakowicz

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@hiker_man21 @EerikNKross A hotel in Estonia cost me €80 ($120) back in 2010. At 2010 prices, that was 48,000 BTC. Does this mean Estonia stole $38 million worth of Bitcoin from me?

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@hiker_man21 @EerikNKross @grok Compare gdp per capita ppp for ussr, usa and western germany in 1989

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@hiker_man21 @EerikNKross You forgot to add "in a free market" to your definition of GDP. There was no free market in the ex-USSR. Back in 1992, the average salary was around €30, while utilities for an apartment cost about €0.50.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@TofasLtu @MarsRubic @JacekLuczynski @d_foubert Maybe Wilno and Troki, which were annexed from Poland by Kowno Lithuania as a result of the criminal Molotov-Ribbentrop-Urbshys pact in violation of international law, don't belong to modern Lithuania, ah?

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@gwhaaaaaa @hiker_man21 @EerikNKross I think Estonia and Latvia had similar literacy as Finland levels in 1897. The reason was not economical, but religious.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@hiker_man21 @EerikNKross This graph is manipulative. We can blame the Soviet Union for slower economic development compared to the West, but not for an actual decline. If that were true, Lithuania would have still been using horses instead of cars in 1989.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@TofasLtu @MarsRubic @JacekLuczynski @d_foubert You missed a few things on the map: Russo Blanco only covers the eastern part of modern Belarus, east of the Berezina River. Lithuania Propria is now split 50/50 between modern Belarus and Lithuania, while a major part of modern Lithuania is actually Samogitia.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@imjinheemkm @d_foubert In the 16th–18th centuries, a nation meant only the nobility loyal to a ruler. Thus, the Commonwealth of Both Nations referred to the nobles under the Polish King and the nobles under the Lithuanian Grand Duke. Ordinary peasants weren't considered part of the nation at all.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@Prisikelimas @Adrian54877455 @d_foubert Jogaila was half ethnically Lithuanian, and during the 15th century, Belarusian replaced Lithuanian as the language of the ruling elite. Then at the beginning of 17th century Belarusian was replaced by Polish.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@Dakasr2 Snyder clearly distinguishes between medieval and modern Lithuanians. He writes that the modern Lithuanian state was created by peasants who had to invent a historical narrative because, unlike Belarusian activists, they had no family ties to the traditions of the GDL

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@yoda69 Are you indeed Cyber Security Researcher? It's overall traffic from AS13238, not bots https://t.co/9ysjr2ikcJ

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@Breaking_meow If it's lithuanian, why it's barščiai from Ukranian borscht?

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@DrFrancisYoung @thetimes The irony is that Lithuanian "founding fathers" defined their nation strictly by mother tongue, yet they still claim GDL elites like Kosciuszko who never spoke the language. He identified himself as a "Litwin," which by today's definitions would actually make him a "Litvinist."

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@DrFrancisYoung @thetimes While this may seem unusual at first, it is easily explained by the way Belarus and Lithuania developed as modern nations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@DrFrancisYoung @thetimes Since 1990, Belarusians have begun reclaiming this past, challenging the Russian-Lithuanian version of history—a movement now defensively labeled as "Litvinism".

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@DrFrancisYoung @thetimes The current "official" history was largely shaped by Russian historiography. To keep Belarusians tied to the "Russian World," the Russians framed the GDL as an alien "Lithuanian feudal" conquest that oppressed Belarusians.

[Victor Sakowicz @atlantosn]

@DrFrancisYoung @thetimes As Timothy Snyder and Miroslav Hroch noted, the modern Lithuanian movement was a peasant-led linguistic project by activist from Kovno and Suvalkia governorate, while the Belarusian movement was founded by the minor gentry.