Posted on 04/14/2005 1:56:00 PM PDT by lizol
U.S. Congressmen Want Russia to Acknowledge Illegal Occupation of Baltics
MosNews
The House of Representatives’ Committee on International Relations has received a resolution project to get an acknowledgement from Russia that its occupation of the Baltic states was illegal.
The resolution authors are John Shimkus (R-IL) and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). They have urged Russia to make a “clear and unequivocal statement on acknowledgement and condemnation of the illegal occupation and annexation of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, by the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1991,” Kommersant newspaper wrote.
Shimkus and Kucinich head the Baltic Caucus in the U.S. Congress established in 1997. The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Christopher Cox, has already supported the resolution.
For once I agree with Dennis Kucinich.
(/it's the end of the world)
Communist turning on their own.
Shimkus sounds Lithuanian
Next Bill: A motion for Mongols to declare Genghis a "Big Meanie".
No kidding, this is ridiculous. This is the same thing as the Chinese protesting the Japanese, the Aztecs protesting the Spanish, and the Wonka Wony Wimpum Peoples of XXXX location protesting the Miggly Mony Mimpum peoples of XXX locations for atrocities committed XXX years ago.
Baltic states were illegally occupied by Soviet Union. Let them make Soviet Union to apologize.
Good luck with that.
"Next Bill: A motion for Mongols to declare Genghis a "Big Meanie"." You said.
:) That's good. Makes about as much sense, don't it?
Today's Japan apologizes for the acts of the Tojo regime and democractic Germany for the acts of the Nazis. Why is Russia immune?
And their point is...?
BUMP
Getting anyone to admit wrongdoing by the USSR is usually an uphill battle.
Getting anyone to admit the unprecedented genocides committed under Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist "ideals" from 1917 on up is really in for a real "rock fight." You are also in for a rock fight if you dare say that communal living in the USSR was a "worker's paradise"..
Some fake "Conservatives" are in reality pro-Stalinist due to their silence, tacit complicity and maybe even agreement with the genocides. Can't criticize Uncle Joe, eh?
...Stupid Kulaks. How dare they want to own Private Property.... "Onto the state owned property- the Kolkoz you stupid property-owning Kulak!!!.. You will work for peanuts and enjoy the rigors of communal living!! .. "or else" the NKVD will take care of you!!! (sarc.)
God help you if you were the last one left with a house and two goats and a tractor.
http://www.rusnet.nl/encyclo/k/kolkhoz.shtml
Aaah yes, communal living in the barracks
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/english/memories/~rom3.html
Country without dogs is country of hunger. Only 25 years before his visit, Russia was net exporter of food.
A couple of months ago, I have seen an article about Chicago-based bank making an apology for slave trade. It came out that one of their branches has acquired a small bank involved in slave trade before The Civi war.
Taking this as a precedent, perhaps some of the American banks should apologize because their branches financed Communists and brought red menace to Russia for $20M, menace that killed more than 70 million people and caused suffering for hundreds of millions, both in the East and the West.
Present day Russia and USSR are not the same. If apology is due, it should be made jointly by Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and all other former USSR countries whose citizens were involved in illegal occupation of the Baltic states.
Check the lists of Lenin and Stalin oppressive aparatus, army , police, secret service etc.
Russians were an absolute minority among the henchmen and absolute majority among the victims.
Comparrison with Japan and Germany is historically inaccurate. It is like requesting from Hungary to apologize for the agressive wars of Austro-Hungarian empire and illegal occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Do you have the name of the book and also the isbn # ?
Is this guy’s work as good as Richard Pipe's work, the "Russian Revolution?"
If you get the name of the Malaparte book, I'll hunt it down and read it (if avail.). Tks.
What a waste of a great country loaded with some really hard working people and natural resources. Marx and all his disciples are guilty of great crimes.
The scales of Justice must be balanced out with careful weights and objective measures. I bet Heaven is chock full of dead Russians whose souls are waiting to plead their woeful case at the Final Judgment.
*Russian Justice ping*
Country without dogs is country of hunger. Only 25 years before his visit, Russia was net exporter of food. ===
Interesting. If you go on streets of any russian town today you may see lots of straying dogs. It means that russians are very fed today.
Baltic states were illegally occupied by Soviet Union. Let them make Soviet Union to apologize. ==
If one looks on legalities and technicallities of these acts of STalin then one cann't prove "illigal occupation". There exist the official documents in which goverments of those countries invited soviet troops. There were the solutions of thier parlaments. It is technicallities of cause but still it is documents.
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