Live from the New Europe: Reporting from Lithuania

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

[DPB101]

Exactly. Most Baltic peoples, Eastern Europeans and Ukrainians are anticommunist. Bashing them is stupid. They all are forces in American politics. What do we want to do? Drive them to the RAT party? They suffered not only Hitler but decades more under the Soviets. If you want your email box full of the real history of the Soviet Union, find anyone from these areas and make a gesture of sympathy for what they went through. They don't hear it much. Check out the story of Olga M. Cehelska Ph.D.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/935018/posts?page=116#116

Reply #126 has more of her family history.

[nightdriver]

"Palestinians would've had a homeland a long time ago if they would've used their minds and not bombs."

It goes back a lot farther than that, Mr. Jaffee.

Ishmael (father of the arabs) started out mocking little Isaac (father of the jews) and he has never quit. It's a law of nature that the illegitimate always persecutes the legitimate.

[varon]

LATVIA: YEAR OF HORROR

Thanks for the link.

[DPB101]

bump to read later - I am the granddaughter of a Lithuanian immigrant and I know nothing of her pre-American life

Good place to start looking:

http://www.lithuanian.net/index.html

[DPB101]

Fascinating history. Amazing there is a Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. After WWII, Lithuanian partisans continued to fight the Soviets for nearly 8 years. Moscow finally brought in Moslems from Chechnya to wipe them out.

[varon]

I don't want America boosting such nations or tearing them down, let them go to hell or let them prosper -- but above all mind our own business and stop selecting allies du jour to score points with ethnic hyphenated Americans.

You don't like anyone. You're just a sad lonely person, aren't you?

[Destro]

The article is completely reasonable. Last St. Paddy's Day Parade, I didn't see Irish carrying the Union Jack. Similarly, I wouldn't think you'd see Lithuanians carrying Soviet or Russian flags.

Why insert that into this? I made no such comment.

[HISSKGB]

Your blanket condemnation of Lithuanians is appalling. Your egocentricity is beyond belief.

[Destro]

Outside of America I am.

[Destro]

not really.

[stevejackson]

I insert this because of your "blanket condemnation of Lithuanians," as HISSKGB aptly puts it.

Some Irish fought with the Nazis. So should Ireland and Irish-Americans "go to hell," as you put it?

[Destro]

Don't select edit me. I also wrote "or let them prosper" right after. This article is propaganda of no particular value.

[stevejackson]

This article is propaganda of no particular value.

Propoganda about what? Seems there are several posters here who think it has value. Why shouldn't people be happy about being free from the Soviets and establishing a new democracy, which incidentally is friendly to the U.S.

[HISSKGB]

Your denial is instructive.

[1rudeboy]

Shouldn't you be on one of the Serb threads defending genocide, instead of feigning indignation that it happens?

[1rudeboy]

Some guy travels to Lithuania, writes about his trip, and our friend Destro reads it as Holocaust-denying propaganda.

[Destro]

Nice bait.

[1rudeboy]

Of course, because I'm a Nazi.

[Destro]

You are?

[1rudeboy]

Sure I am, Einstein. Because you say so. Along with the Germans, the French, the Poles, the Italians, and any other nationality who contributed to the Nazi War effort.