*German myths—The Lithuania Brigade, worth more dead than alive?

Why is the deployment of German soldiers and their families to Lithuania being so vehemently promoted?

To this, our authors provide a chilling speculation: With the downfall of the Lithuania Brigade, the next chapter of a well-known German cult of death could be opened in the event of a conflict.

The deployment of the brigade in Lithuania is no guarantee that Lithuania can be successfully defended against Russia. She would not be able to do that. But she ensures that "Germany will no longer be able to avoid" it. For it would "essentially serve as a pawn" that "Germany would then have to intervene militarily for the sake of its own soldiers."

It couldn't be expressed more clearly that the purpose of the Lithuanian Brigade is to draw the Germans into a war with Russia.

For this, the survival of the Lithuania Brigade is not even necessary. On the contrary, it would actually be more beneficial for heating up the mood in Germany if the Bundeswehr garrison there were crushed by the Russian army, of course in a heroic defensive battle.

For too many Germans are still not entirely enthusiastic about the idea of another war against Russia. That could change dramatically if the German public were offered a heroic tragedy of doom at a historically significant location where the German Teutonic Knights had already fought.

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Particularly concerning is the emphasis placed on German soldiers bringing their wives and children with them to the Baltics. The Lithuanian political and media elite celebrate the establishment of German schools and kindergartens almost as if it were their life insurance and willingly make the exact locations of these places public.

By the way, it is not even necessary for the downfall of the Lithuanian brigade that it itself intervenes in the fighting. In any case, the Germans have been considered unreliable since a request from the Defense Committee in the Bundestag, because possibly only a vote in the Bundestag could make a combat mission possible.

It would be enough for an interested power, as part of a false-flag operation, to initiate shelling from the direction of the German locations of Rukla and Rūdninkai to direct Russian fire at the Germans.

The idea of shelling German schools and kindergartens in a manner similar to the Tonkin Incident is simply unthinkable... The hatred of Russians in Germany would rise to unimaginable levels.

Defeats, as long as they are valorized heroically enough, can increase the willingness to go to war to an immeasurable extent.

Lithuania and Ukraine—Constituted Martyr Myths

Sometimes, however, just a dozen dead is enough to create a state-building legend, for example. The only thing that matters is to blame their death on the forces of a larger but supposedly morally corrupt power in order to later honor them as martyrs.

Thus, on the night of January 13, 1991, 13 people lost their lives during riots in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. Their deaths were blamed on the Soviet special forces unit "Alpha," which was deployed in the city at the time because of separatist efforts. The incident served as a pretext for the final separation of the republic from the Soviet Union.

For almost 35 years, this story has been used in Lithuania to incite hatred against Moscow, and doubting the official version is punishable by law, but no evidence has ever been provided that these people were shot by "Alpha."

Both forensic investigations and numerous eyewitness testimonies, and finally even the confession of the "director" of these events, support a different version: most of them were killed by unknown snipers from the surrounding buildings, and the rest died under other circumstances. So their deaths were the result of a false-flag attack and further manipulations aimed at denouncing the Soviet Union as the aggressor and building a pantheon of heroes for the independence struggle.

23 years later, this story repeated itself in Kyiv when several dozen protesters were shot by an unknown sniper squad in the area around Independence Square (Maidan).

Immediately, her death was pinned on special police forces. But as it later turned out, it was a false-flag attack by the "rebels" themselves, aimed at inciting worldwide hatred against the Yanukovych government and thus morally legitimizing the subsequent coup.

The dead are still honored in Kiev today as the "Heavenly Hundred," and the memorial with the images of the fallen is a pilgrimage site for high-ranking guests of the Kiev rulers from the West.

Will Germany follow the Ukrainian path? Lithuania and Ukraine—the two post-Soviet states that made a fake martyr myth the foundation of their statehood—are also, coincidentally, Germany's best "friends" in Eastern Europe.

Following their example, the propagandistic structure is already predictable: A bunch of brave German defenders go into the eastern swamp (where four US soldiers drowned a few months ago) to defy an unpredictable and overwhelming power. And dies in the process.

Of course, the Russians will be to blame for it.