Вильнюс и Таллин - заявления

Заявление президента Литвы Адамкуса:

STATEMENT BY H. E. Mr. VALDAS ADAMKUS, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

2005-03-07

Nuotrauka

Today I have handed over to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Vilnius my reply to the invitation by President Vladimir Putin to attend on May 9th the celebration of Victory Day in Moscow.
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H.E. Mr. Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania

http://www.president.lt/en/news.full/5545

Заявление президента Эстонии Рюйтеля:

The Statement of the President of the Republic, March 7, 2005

Dear people of Estonia!

Today I made my decision not to accept the invitation to participate on May 9, this year, in Moscow in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. I have informed the President of Russia Vladimir Putin about my decision by a letter.
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Arnold Rüütel

http://www.president.ee/en/duties/statements.php?gid=59933

Swords or Shields? Implementing and subverting the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Europe

http://weber.ucsd.edu/~ejhollan/Swords%20or%20Shields.PDF

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From Melos to Masada, the ancient world is littered with the ruins of those who defended principle to the point of death. But for the most part, those who prefer sovereignty to survival are the exception, not the rule. True, even the cities that survive as subjects of another bare the scars of imperial conquest and domination. And there’s little evidence that the strategy of collaboration is the ‘best’ one in the long term — much less, the ‘right’ one. But objective study of the Holocaust requires that we deflate villainy as much as we do heroism. Disturbing as the moral implications may be, we cannot deny the simple fact that collaborators — be it by the virtue of their own intention or the unwitting consequence of selfishness — succeeded in saving more Jews than the most righteous of gentiles. There is little doubt that history’s greatest freedom-fighters had the best interests of their people in mind. But if we are to learn anything from the most tragic events in Jewish history, it might be that, while Tito, ben Simon, and Bar Kokhba are rightly considered heroes of a ‘Jewish’ cause, Mussolini, Pétain and Herod saved more Jewish lives.