In which Lithuania is awesome.
In 1863, Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus all had an uprising against the Russian Empire. It didn't end well; Russia put all three insurrections down.
But this being Russia, he could not believe that Belarus or Lithuania would ever rebel against him. Instead he assumed it was all Poland's fault, and instigated a ban of the press and the Latin alphabet.
At this point Lithuanian has only been a written language for roughly 50 years. So there are some attempts to convert Lithuanian into the Cyrillic alphabet, but that fails pretty hardcore. Instead, Lithuanian schools are closed, Russian becomes the only legal language, and literacy falls at an alarming rate in Lithuania.
Lithuania, being a hardcore motherfucker, responds to this by smuggling the shit out of books.
So it's 1867 for this guy. For the sake of Hetalia being an incomplete political metaphor, Lithuania is smuggling books in all sorts of languages to the over nations in the Russian Empire.
Relationships:
-He is not on good terms with Russia. Russia is not crazy, but he really really wants Lithuania to become one with him. Lithuania's response to attempts to completely subsume his culture is about the same as all nations: a huge rise of nationalism. Scared? Check. Will punch Russia in the face? Also check.
-He doesn't know America yet. But America (and Prussia!) printed books for him!
-Estonia and Latvia are kind of avoiding him and his Nationalistic Cooties.
-Poland just wants Lithuania to try for another uprising. Lithuania is so not going for it.
-He knows Finland. Sort of. (Not really.)
-the rest of y'all: who the hell knows.
But this being Russia, he could not believe that Belarus or Lithuania would ever rebel against him. Instead he assumed it was all Poland's fault, and instigated a ban of the press and the Latin alphabet.
At this point Lithuanian has only been a written language for roughly 50 years. So there are some attempts to convert Lithuanian into the Cyrillic alphabet, but that fails pretty hardcore. Instead, Lithuanian schools are closed, Russian becomes the only legal language, and literacy falls at an alarming rate in Lithuania.
Lithuania, being a hardcore motherfucker, responds to this by smuggling the shit out of books.
So it's 1867 for this guy. For the sake of Hetalia being an incomplete political metaphor, Lithuania is smuggling books in all sorts of languages to the over nations in the Russian Empire.
Relationships:
-He is not on good terms with Russia. Russia is not crazy, but he really really wants Lithuania to become one with him. Lithuania's response to attempts to completely subsume his culture is about the same as all nations: a huge rise of nationalism. Scared? Check. Will punch Russia in the face? Also check.
-He doesn't know America yet. But America (and Prussia!) printed books for him!
-Estonia and Latvia are kind of avoiding him and his Nationalistic Cooties.
-Poland just wants Lithuania to try for another uprising. Lithuania is so not going for it.
-He knows Finland. Sort of. (Not really.)
-the rest of y'all: who the hell knows.