Lithuanians have little fondness for Russia. Memories of decades of brutality linger, even more than a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union.

So a Walmart T-shirt with a hammer and sickle emblem was never likely to be a best seller there.

Now, it’s not being sold at all.

Lithuanian officials say Walmart, responding to their protests, has pulled the shirts from its online shelves — a move that chilled already icy relations between the countries.

On Wednesday, a day after the news broke, Russia’s Foreign Ministry lobbed insults at Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry on Twitter.