WORLD SLEEP DAY 🛌

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    8 months ago

    tomorrow is day of the book smugglers in lithuania

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      8 months ago

      This interests me. ( these people are heroes )

      Opposing imperial Russian authorities’ efforts to replace the traditional Latin orthography with Cyrillic, and transporting printed matter from as far away as the United States to do so, the book smugglers became a symbol of Lithuanians’ resistance to Russification.

      Book smuggler Jurgis Bielinis, who created a secret distribution network for banned Lithuanian books, was born on 16 March 1846, and this date is commemorated in Lithuania as the Day of the Book Smugglers (Knygnešio diena).[5]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_book_smugglers