# Continuous Paganism in Europe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuous-paganism-in-europe/754436>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 9, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuous-paganism-in-europe/754436 "2016-05-09T20:47:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuous-paganism-in-europe/754436/61 "2016-05-18T02:03:16Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> So the gap between traditional practice and modern reconstructionism is only 48 years in Lithuania . . .

No. As I pointed out in post 55:

> [@UDS](#):
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> The Wikipedia article, for what it’s worth, suggests that the discontinuity in Romuva was not the period of Soviet occupation, but rather the period between the Christianisation of Lithuania in the late medieval/early modern period and the Romantic revival of Romuva in the nineteenth century.

In other words, the Soviets didn’t suppress Original Romuva ™. What they suppressed was the Neopagan revival of Romuva which dated from the nineteenth century.

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