Lithuania urges Walmart to drop Soviet-themed shirts
Lithuania has urged US retailer Walmart to stop selling T-shirts and hoodies with Soviet hammer and sickle symbols. "Horrific crimes were committed under the Soviet symbols of sickle & hammer. You wouldnât buy Nazi-themed clothing, would you?" Lithuania's foreign minister Linas Linkevicius tweeted. Lithuania, a European Union member, was the first republic to secede from the Soviet Union in 1990.