NEWS YOU WONT FIND ON CNN or other western media... Its just not this funny: RT brings the news, not the jokes - youtu.be/55CMCz7yp3U Images, news, opinions, facts you will never see in western media... The EU and the rehabilitation of Nazism in the Baltic countries While the neo-Nazis were the main force behind the coup in Ukraine and the followers of the “Svoboda” and “Right Sector” continue to spread violence and persecuteу ethnic minorities, calling Stepan Bandera a national hero, March 16 is the day when soldiers of the Latvian Legion, which was part of the Waffen SS, are commemorated. Latvian Legion Day is not a national holiday in Latvia anymore, but every year on March 16 hundreds of people take to the streets of Riga to honor the veterans of Waffen SS. Anti-fascists oppose these marches, recalling that on March 16, 1944 was the first battle in which two Latvian SS Divisions fought against the advancing Soviet troops. The residents of Latvia, many of whom are Russians, repeatedly reminded that the legionnaires who fought in the Nazi Waffen SS Legion were well-known for extreme cruelty in the occupied territories. Since 2004 Latvia has been the member of the EU and NATO. The European Union is an organization where the rights of minorities are declared to be one of the most important values. Everyone has the right to speak their language, to practice their religion without restriction and to participate in public life. There is a special category of people in Latvia – noncitizens. Mostly the people who moved to Latvia from other republics of the USSR in 1940-1989 and their children became non-citizens of Latvia in the 1990s. According to the Population Register, there live 13 percent of non-citizens in Latvia that is 282,8 thousands of people. A non-citizen of Latvia has a passport, but it is not red like other Latvians have, but brown. The owner of such a passport can live in Latvia, but has no right to vote, cannot serve in the army, work in public administration and police, cannot be a lawyer, a notary or a pharmacist. There are restrictions on the right to buy immovable property, privatization and access to education. There is an impression that the reconsideration of the results of World War II is escalating, and in the Baltic countries it became legal to ignore the rights of the minorities. It should be noted that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/66/460 on Inadmissibility of Certain Practices That Contribute to Fuelling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was adopted in 2011. About a quarter million of Latvians participated in World War II - some of them on the side of Nazi Germany, part – on the side of the Soviet Union. The Russian Foreign Ministry repeatedly expressed deep concerns about the glorification of former members of Waffen SS, emphasizing that this practice offends the memory of the countless victims of the SS, poisons the minds of the youth and is incompatible with the obligations of the members of the UN. In 1941-42 the Nazis in Latvia killed about 80,000 Jews; it is 90% of the Jews living there in the pre-war period. Despite the attitude towards the minorities in the EU, the policy of the Baltic countries is being ignored by Brussels. Except for the nominal criticism, Brussels does not take any specific measures against this phenomenon. The Head of Israeli Wiesenthal Center Efraim Zuroff declared that while the Latvian authorities periodically unleashed repressions against the Soviet veterans, for all the years of independence, Latvia has not ever punished a single Nazi war criminal. Regarding the fight of the EU against Holocaust deniers, the lack of its reaction is rather interesting. At the same time Ukraine may become the next state in Europe that glorifies Nazism. What is your attitude towards the glorification on the Nazi movement in several countries? Is it an outrage on humanity, taking into account the number of victims of the Second World War? Why do the EU and Israeli authorities essentially turn a blind eye on the neo-Nazi renaissance in the Baltic states, in your opinion? Are the far-right groups becoming more popular in Europe or their prominence in the Baltic states and Ukraine is unique? - globaldiscussion.net/topic/6693-the-eu-and-the-rehabilitation-of-nazism-in-the-baltic-countries/ Maidan without any decor - globaldiscussion.net/topic/6572-maidan-without-any-decor/?fb_action_ids=725854304132822&fb_action_types=og.likes
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:50:50 +0000
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