1.Our former Socialist Camp partners are eager to remind of the offences and injustices done by the Soviet power to their peoples, but they diligently avoid mentioning the fact, that the Stalinism, guided with the perverted ideas of Socialist Construction, used terror not against the Ukrainians or the Balts, Hungarians or Czechs, Kalmyks or Crimean Tatars - not against any nationality in the Soviet Union.

2.Neither the Russian Empire, nor Soviet Union has ever won new territories with the conquistador sword. We have always used such a tool as the cultural assimilation with smaller nations. This is true for the history of Russia-Lithuania relations, too. Our history textbooks give insufficiently little information on the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that would be fair to call the Russo-Lithuanian state.

3.The USSR, unlikely to the Czarist Russia, was not the 'prison of nations'. It became the 'prison of nations' under the Stalin regime, its people has been deprived of civil rights and destroyed by poverty under Khruschev and Brezhnev, but that has noting to do with the national aspect. The USSR was a head over the other great empires as far as advancing the backward indigenous nations towards the modern civilization was concerned. Yes, it was the empire, but of the kind where the Center was feeding and developing the periphery provinces at its own.