Conservatives are preparing an innovation – this time for road signs: they call it the Soviet legacy

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When walking through the crossing, people probably do not even think that the usual road signs, according to some conservatives in the Seimas, are a Soviet legacy. And such signs must be changed.

The signs need to be changed, according to conservatives, because the same road signs are used by Russians and Belarusians. And we don’t want to be like them.

In Moscow, the signs are similar

“Lithuanians, Russians and Belarusians are essentially the same. But the Polish where there is a difference, they have orange. According to specialists, it is more visible to the human eye, this can be discussed here”, says conservative Andrius Vyšniauskas.

When comparing the road signs in Lithuania and the Russian capital Moscow, many similarities can be seen, especially with pedestrian crossing signs.

Road signs in Poland and Latvia are different.

“Estonians have moose, Latvians have deer. I don’t know why it is like that, maybe there are more moose in Estonia. Because we have very few moose. More roe deer, more deer”, says A. Vyšniauskas.

Conservative Vyšniauskas says that this is why Lithuania lags behind its Latvian and Estonian neighbors – their signs are prettier and no longer remind of the Soviet era.

“We still live, in this area, in the Soviet Union,” says conservative Vyšniauskas.

However, the problem of road signs does not affect everyone.

“When I think about Sovietism and Westernism, I think that here is the last thing that comes to my mind, as a relic of some Soviet period,” says KTU faculty dean Ainius Lašas.

People are mad about money

Not only the political scientist, but also the people interviewed on our street are surprised by such ideas of conservatives. It is said that I no longer have anything to do with the government:

“He got it right. Whatever conservatives come up with is fine. Especially if Landsberg contributed, it’s quite good.”

“Signs are signs and money can be spent elsewhere.”

“These are more important issues in life and in the state that need to be addressed. People probably come up with the idea that they need to change because they don’t have anything to do.”

“After raising this discussion, I received a lot of comments, and the most angry comments came from people who are mostly Russian speakers. And from that conversation, discussion, you can see that Soviet nostalgia is still alive and well.” – says A. Vyšniauskas.

How much it will cost, Vyšniauskas does not have an exact answer. They just say it’s cheap.

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