Live from the New Europe: Reporting from Lithuania

netWMD (netwmd.com) ^ | June 23, 2003 | Andrew Jaffee

[forty_years]

In ten years, France and Germany will be worse shit-holes than they are now, and countries like Lithuania will be the ones that count.

[xrp]

Palestinians would've had a homeland a long time ago

55 years ago and counting...

[Destro]

I guess the time when they helped the Nazis kill all those Jews doesn't get a mention in this article...

[VVS]

The most absurd blame game that nationalist governments
of post communist East Europe keep playing still is the
one to encourage hate against russians to
escape their own responsibilities for failures in economic reforms and extreme corruption. First of all,communist
is a political movement ,it is not a nationality.
Russians were themselves the victims of communism,and
communist party no longer rules Russia and it's neighbors.
It is idiotic to come up to a regular russian who never
had any affiliation with communist party or it's policy
and bitch about crimes of communism
that his people are responsible for. So,they hate russians
forever,then? There is no limit to hypocrisy in the Baltics,
with almost half of their economy being tied to CIS.
They love to get russian oil,yet spew hate to russians behind their backs. What is the democracy,when most of
ethnic slavs like russians and belorussians have no rights and no citizenship in 3 baltic states? who is practicing an Apartheid? russians? I think not..

[dfwgator]

Their democratic revolution in the late 80's and early 90's was fought with the pen, with meetings, with peaceful demonstrations, and with politics--even though the Russians responded with violence.

If there was a leader that should have stood trial, it was Gorbachev for ordering the Vilnius massacre.

[Destro]

Indeed.

[HostileTerritory]

Jaffe is a Jewish name... if he chose not to bring the Holocaust up in this article I don't think this implies any kind of whitewashing.

[Destro]

Me thinks thou doest protesteth too much....

[McGavin999]

If you're looking for a place in europe to vacation, think about vacationing in these New Europe countries. They deserve American tourist dollars, would appreciate them, and you'd have a wonderful time being among people who actually like and respect Americans.

[Destro]

Accusing the Lithuanians of single-handedly exterminating all the Jews in their country is an outright lie.

Of course it is! Duh! Everyone knows the Nazis helped them out.

[Destro]

Nice attempt at deflection--but the Lithuanians were not bystanders but active participators in the liquidation of the Jews.

[Destro]

some did--more like a vast majority did.