21-11-2009, 12:51 PM
I know a little too much about Lithuanian politics. Formin Usackas is former ambassador to the US. Dalia Grybauskaite was basicaly appointed president after serving as a European Commissioner by virtue of her Soviet economic education. She was appointed there because of her network of Communist Party friends in Lithuania, again, selected. Both Usackas and Grybauskaite are patently interested in whitewashing the issue. Grybauskaite isn't even seeking legal accountability, according to the quote by ABC.
She replaced Adamkus, the American former military intelligence agent and Nixon appointee to EPA who returned to the presidency on a colored revolution in 2003 to oust Rolandas Paksas. Before going to the USA after WWII, Adamkus served as head of a Catholic Youth organization for DPs in Germany. Before that, he served under Nazi command fighting a rear-guard action on behalf of the Third Reich against the Red Army in Lithuania, having returned from his family's residence in Nazi Germany to western Lithuania in late 1944.
Lithuania went along with the diktat from Washington in 2001 just as the provisional government greeted Lithuania's "liberation" by Adolf Hitler in 1941. It wasn't a quid pro quo for NATO membership, Lithuania would willingly have created as many torture chambers as Wshington asked for with or without NATO membership. And just as Lithuanians still haven't come to terms with the almost total destruction of Lithuanian Jews at their own hands during WWII, they won't face up to this latest complicity in war crimes, atrocities and human rights violations. Torture and murder of civilians.
I'm looking at a news item from Lithuania from 3 days ago right now that says the director of the Lithuanian Genocide Center (dedicated to promoting the idea Lithuanians not Jews were the main victims of genocide in Lithuania but funded from the state budget) where she decries webpages in Israel listing esteemed Lithuanian patriots and partisans as war criminals and Holocaust perpetrators. She says the main direction of activities of her center over the next year will be debunking such claims, with the implication that people who don't go along with the center's research and persist in accusing Lithuanian partisans of killing Jews will be brought to legal account. Does it sound fantastic? Well, there's legislation in the Lithuanian parliament to make it illegal to deny the LITHUANIAN holocaust, as well as the Jewish one. You almost get the impression the legislators really wished they could have made the print a lot smaller for the Jewish side of their equation, so people wouldn't pay much attention to it. That's the point, to obfuscate the Holocaust in Lithuania by entangling it with the idea of equal suffering by Lithuanians. And this is exactly what they did in the so-called Genocide Museum the Center runs, they mention Jews about once, in small print, in a little corner somewhere, literally in parentheses. According to the newspaper, she made these remarks to the Lithuanian parliament during the Center's annual report for continued funding, not off-the-cuff remarks to journalists. (the article is called "Lietuvius smeiziancius zydus zadama uzciaupti" or Promises to Shut Up Jews Slandering Lithuanians, at http://www.vakarozinios.lt on November 18, 2009, page 3).
This is the clearest case I have ever heard of, of the truth in the saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
She replaced Adamkus, the American former military intelligence agent and Nixon appointee to EPA who returned to the presidency on a colored revolution in 2003 to oust Rolandas Paksas. Before going to the USA after WWII, Adamkus served as head of a Catholic Youth organization for DPs in Germany. Before that, he served under Nazi command fighting a rear-guard action on behalf of the Third Reich against the Red Army in Lithuania, having returned from his family's residence in Nazi Germany to western Lithuania in late 1944.
Lithuania went along with the diktat from Washington in 2001 just as the provisional government greeted Lithuania's "liberation" by Adolf Hitler in 1941. It wasn't a quid pro quo for NATO membership, Lithuania would willingly have created as many torture chambers as Wshington asked for with or without NATO membership. And just as Lithuanians still haven't come to terms with the almost total destruction of Lithuanian Jews at their own hands during WWII, they won't face up to this latest complicity in war crimes, atrocities and human rights violations. Torture and murder of civilians.
I'm looking at a news item from Lithuania from 3 days ago right now that says the director of the Lithuanian Genocide Center (dedicated to promoting the idea Lithuanians not Jews were the main victims of genocide in Lithuania but funded from the state budget) where she decries webpages in Israel listing esteemed Lithuanian patriots and partisans as war criminals and Holocaust perpetrators. She says the main direction of activities of her center over the next year will be debunking such claims, with the implication that people who don't go along with the center's research and persist in accusing Lithuanian partisans of killing Jews will be brought to legal account. Does it sound fantastic? Well, there's legislation in the Lithuanian parliament to make it illegal to deny the LITHUANIAN holocaust, as well as the Jewish one. You almost get the impression the legislators really wished they could have made the print a lot smaller for the Jewish side of their equation, so people wouldn't pay much attention to it. That's the point, to obfuscate the Holocaust in Lithuania by entangling it with the idea of equal suffering by Lithuanians. And this is exactly what they did in the so-called Genocide Museum the Center runs, they mention Jews about once, in small print, in a little corner somewhere, literally in parentheses. According to the newspaper, she made these remarks to the Lithuanian parliament during the Center's annual report for continued funding, not off-the-cuff remarks to journalists. (the article is called "Lietuvius smeiziancius zydus zadama uzciaupti" or Promises to Shut Up Jews Slandering Lithuanians, at http://www.vakarozinios.lt on November 18, 2009, page 3).
This is the clearest case I have ever heard of, of the truth in the saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.