Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has criticised a book on the country’s history published in Russia, which features a preface written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“It is a tool for hostile activities against neighbouring countries: to question statehood, history, values, symbols, but also to justify Russia's imperialism and aggression against its neighbours,” Budrys told reporters on Wednesday.
“We have seen this before, we are seeing it now, and this is just another example,” he said.
The book claims that the Lithuanian nation and language do not exist, Professor Gintautas Mažeikis from the Vytautas Magnus University told LRT RADIO. The book, which he said was available for free online, also claimed that the Lithuanian nation-state was created by Slavs and Russia.
“The denial of Lithuania’s existence seems very similar to the denial of Ukrainians as a nation,” Mažeikis said.
In his foreword, Lavrov accuses the Baltic states, including Lithuania, of trying to “use falsified historical narratives to incite anti-Russian and Russophobic sentiments.” The book, he says, pushes back against this trend.
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In the book’s chapter on Lithuania after its separation from the USSR, Grigoryev, Grabauskas, and their coauthors argue that the country today “officially considers itself the successor of the Lithuania of the pro-Nazi dictatorship” under Antanas Smetona. They also write that the “contemporary Lithuanian regime” embraces a “pro-Nazi” ideology and survives “largely” thanks to “police measures and the suppression of dissent.”
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has criticised a book on the country’s history published in Russia, which features a preface written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“It is a tool for hostile activities against neighbouring countries: to question statehood, history, values, symbols, but also to justify Russia's imperialism and aggression against its neighbours,” Budrys told reporters on Wednesday.
“We have seen this before, we are seeing it now, and this is just another example,” he said.
The book claims that the Lithuanian nation and language do not exist, Professor Gintautas Mažeikis from the Vytautas Magnus University told LRT RADIO. The book, which he said was available for free online, also claimed that the Lithuanian nation-state was created by Slavs and Russia.
“The denial of Lithuania’s existence seems very similar to the denial of Ukrainians as a nation,” Mažeikis said.
In his foreword, Lavrov accuses the Baltic states, including Lithuania, of trying to “use falsified historical narratives to incite anti-Russian and Russophobic sentiments.” The book, he says, pushes back against this trend.
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In the book’s chapter on Lithuania after its separation from the USSR, Grigoryev, Grabauskas, and their coauthors argue that the country today “officially considers itself the successor of the Lithuania of the pro-Nazi dictatorship” under Antanas Smetona. They also write that the “contemporary Lithuanian regime” embraces a “pro-Nazi” ideology and survives “largely” thanks to “police measures and the suppression of dissent.”
Det var först när de sovjetiska trupperna drog sig tillbaka från Central- och Östeuropa 45 år efter andra världskrigets slut som den verkliga befrielsen infann sig, när Sovjetunionen kollapsade och de ockuperade nationerna kunde bli självständiga. Att återställa eller etablera självständiga stater var emellertid enklare än att uppnå suveränitet på minnets domäner.
Ryssland har, som självutnämnd efterträdare till Sovjetunionen, byggt sin internationella politiska profil på den sovjetiska myten om ”befrielsen”, som ger moraliskt kapital och påtvingar de tidigare ockuperade territorierna en tacksamhetsskuld. I detta narrativ avbildas Ryssland som det främsta offret för den tyska invasionen, ett budskap som förstärks av de internationella dignitärer som under årens lopp deltagit i jubileumsfirandena i Moskva.
Ja, förlusten av människoliv i Sovjetunionen var verkliga och påtagliga. Detta står dock inte i strid med det tragiska faktum att dessa förluster använts för att kuva frihetslängtande nationer och för att ersätta en diktatur med en annan. Den sovjetiska soldaten, som fortfarande står staty i europeiska städer från Berlin till Sofia, var ingen befriare utan en erövrare. Och inga av de uppoffringar som Sovjetunionen gjorde för att besegra nazisterna kan ursäkta Sovjetunionens egen roll som ockupationsmakt.
The Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Great Terror is annually held on August 5 in Sandarmokh, the forest area in Karelia. Thousands of people killed by Stalin's NKVD are buried in the area.Det är jävligt fult och fascistiskt att lägga ner blomster i ru卍卍åfåbiska färger. Det vet ni väl?
This year's commemoration did not proceed without trouble.
A significant number of people had traveled to the memorial site to pay their respect. Among them were representatives of the Finnish Embassy in Moscow, including Ambassador Marja Liivala.
They were met by militant activists from the ultraright group Russkaya Obshchina (Russian Community).
Many of the militants had their faces covered by balaclavas. They verbally attacked the foreign diplomats, accusing them of being 'fascists.'
The provocateurs also told the guests at the commemoration that they were 'collaborators' and that they should "go to Donbass."
At their appearance, the masked nationalists became animated. They greeted the diplomats with shouts of “No to fascism! Victory will be ours! Forward, Russia! We are Russians—God is with us!” The German consul was specifically singled out, being called a fascist more than anyone else.
The nationalist crowd reacted mostly calmly to the laying of flowers. But when it was time to lay flowers at the cross in memory of the repressed Ukrainians, a command was sent over the radios to sing “Katyusha,” a patriotic Soviet-era song popular during WWII.
The nationalists were also concerned about the colour of the bouquets laid at the monuments to the executed Poles, Germans, and Finns.
“Here they are bringing yellow and blue flowers. It’s clear what they mean. Isn’t this a provocation? But we aren’t stopping them from laying flowers,” reasoned the activists of the People’s Volunteer Druzhina.
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