Jūratė Statkutė de Rosales and the history of the Goths

The article addresses the hypothesis raised by the author, according to which the Balts rather than the Germanic tribes destroyed the Roman Empire, founded a state of the Goths in Spain, etc. The absurd conclusions follow from the false methodology: instead of researching linguistic monuments, she grounds her conclusions on the accounts of contemporaries on the nations of that time, the origins of which were not yet possible to explain in that period. The article also deals with the reasons behind the author’s popularity in Lithuania