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In reply to the discussion: Man who gave Nazi salute at a basketball match fined £2,500 [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)24. It had a puppet regime, that some still sympathise with
In a controversial move causing anguish among Holocaust survivors, Lithuania's Jewish community and the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, the "prime minister" of Lithuania's 1941 Nazi puppet government will be glorified, reinterred with full honors and subject of a commemorative conference at Vytautas Magnus University this week.
The remains of Juozas Brazaitis (Ambrazevicius ), who died in the United States in 1974, will be re-interred from Putnam, Connecticut, to the Church of the Resurrection in Kaunas. En route, he will be honored in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, in a ceremony slated for May 17.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, described the move as "an absolute outrage."
Adv. Joseph A. Melamed, chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, told Haaretz: "One should resist this action. The government of Ambrazevicius was in charge of the murder of the Jews of Lithuania."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/glorifying-a-nazi-collaborator-in-lithuania-1.430508
The remains of Juozas Brazaitis (Ambrazevicius ), who died in the United States in 1974, will be re-interred from Putnam, Connecticut, to the Church of the Resurrection in Kaunas. En route, he will be honored in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, in a ceremony slated for May 17.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, Holocaust historian Dr. Efraim Zuroff, described the move as "an absolute outrage."
Adv. Joseph A. Melamed, chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel, told Haaretz: "One should resist this action. The government of Ambrazevicius was in charge of the murder of the Jews of Lithuania."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/glorifying-a-nazi-collaborator-in-lithuania-1.430508
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So you believe the strictures regarding bigotry in Europe are totally arbitrary?
Scootaloo
Aug 2012
#23
Being escorted into a 'free speech zone' some years ago allowed me to realize
LanternWaste
Aug 2012
#61
Every soveriegn country has the right to draw the line between hate speech and free speech.
grantcart
Aug 2012
#8
Are you really arguing that the Declaration of Independence is right wing talking points?
Bucky
Aug 2012
#28
I believe the idea is that the rights were given at birth and taken away by governments/people
Tunkamerica
Aug 2012
#60
If the Olympics were held in Germany, the punishment would be 100X severe.
Great Caesars Ghost
Aug 2012
#22
Less amusing when nuanced discussion of it is minimized and petulantly interpreted as opposition
LanternWaste
Aug 2012
#63