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Old 05-21-06, 09:31 PM   #1
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I know what he's doing.




And if you still didn't clue in, likewise -

The problem is not the fact that they're commemorating resistance to Soviet occupation. The problem is how and through what. They could do it without using Nazi organizations connected to massive atrocities. They could also do it without trying to make present-day Russians somehow feel guilty of it, and without disenfranchising vast populations of Russians on their territory who were born and raised there.

I think a good parallel to this particular gesture would be if Finland raised a monument to their glorious role in assisting the siege of Leningrad.
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