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"Growing up under Soviet rule, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė was not allowed to celebrate Christmas. Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.

The crime?

Her teenage brother was caught handing out leaflets that said, "Lithuania is free."

""In my opinion, the only efficient diplomacy with Russia was what Al Capone said, the only good negotiation is when you have a gun on the table. So that's probably the kind of diplomacy that would work with Russia," Šakalienė warned during an interview at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington Friday.



But what's the difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian?  Not much.

So what happened to the mother's teenage brother?