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is representative of Soviet communist thinking. Those arrested were already regarded guilty per se and could not escape punishment. Ifany officer perceived the released or left in a cell prisoners might become political enemies to the “authorities”, then …
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a foreign country against his own. He committed, on behalf of the occupying USSR, crimes against humanity, he participated in war crimes as soviet military executed helpless civilians, yet he is still sheltered in post-soviet Russia, which pretends to be …
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we find the names of comrades Kaganovitch and Kalinin. The latter was granted immortality when the city of Konigsberg was given his name soon afterwards it became an even greater site of soviet genocide. Today’s Russia is diminishing the importance of the …
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One more explanation for similarities in the methods of torturing used in Lithuania is as follows. The wiring of an open mouth to prevent the victims from shouting too loudly, was probably exercised due to a special instruction distributed at the time. As …
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ove The fourteen-year-old girl was deported by the Soviet occupiers in June 1941 from verdant and blossoming Lithuania to Trofimovsk, the icy island of death by the mouth of the River Lena in the far north of Russia. She saw and remembered everything. …
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When the deportees were taken for work, they were inspected and assessed. An NKVD (KGB) officer with steely eyes represented a sadistic omnipotence. It was sheer humiliation, the deportees were not considered to be people. “For the first time ever, I felt …
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Soviets had their own enormous natural chambers of starvation and cold, enabling them to kill thousands and even millions, of “enemies of the people”. They thus saved on gas; besides, the slaves even worked for them prior to dying. For example, our …
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a moral, spiritual genocide was taking place. Demoralised people were ingratiating themselves into the favour of the strangers. When appointed to local positions of authority, they had been conditioned to despise the dignified and straightforward …
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knowledge of what kind of evil it is that should not be allowed to repeat itself. Without this kind of knowledge there can be no evaluation. When the borderline between good and evil is blurred, both become just two “points of view”. In that way evil …
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Too often we have said of such things, as if it were a mantra: surely it must not ever be repeated. The same formula is uttered, when it is still repeating over and over again. Totalitarian crime is the euphemism for the crimes committed by Communist …
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In line with the range of crimes already mentioned, there were the war crimes. During the war there was the murder unarmed detainees, or helpless civil people, often accopmanied of a bestial cruelty. Please, browse through a book of documents “Forgotten …
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accused in a similar way. “National wounds have to be disturbed to bleed again and again, to prevent them from being covered by crusts of knavery”. Justice per se is another reason, and I would say the lack of justice for the killers kills justice itself. …
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torture lasted a bit longer than cyanide gas. From more than 130 000 civilian people who were brutally taken from the occupied country Lithuania to distant and hostile areas of the occupying USSR, only some 30 percent survived to return home. Who killed …
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VI SOME FUTUROLOGY Among European ambitions for enlargement there is a problem of priorities — and the choice between being large and being strong is the real question. I am saying this because I have observed that the discussions on the future of Europe …
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co-operation, or whether it will accommodate to the challenges which lie ahead by integrating to a lesser extent? Will it embrace, and be embraced by its rewritten Constitution, or (in the case of a failure of that project) will it search for alternative …
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predict whether Russia's present global interest will ultimately be successful in splitting the Europeans from the Euro-Atlantic Alliance which currently secures the cause of democracy in the West. There are also other questions to ponder: First, can we …
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set to become more and more prevalent. Yet it is now confronted not by the historic Christianity alone, but also by Islam. While there is of course something of a confrontation between these creeds, we need to invest hope in the profound concept which was …
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Politicians, if they are not captives of fossil doctrines, sometimes work with their skull-computers on pre-programmed political and geopolitical visions about the future. Most often they could be called not soul- but map-visions. It would be perfect ifI …
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finally preferred peace, a change of mood having come about when Iran was turned to sound reasons. Russia's opening-up of its long- accumulated files, to share its extensive knowledge of international terrorist organisations with the rest of the world, …
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in its ethos, and has not meant an ultimate de-Christianisation in favour of triumphant laicism, as some thinkers predicted it. On the contrary, a general recognition of the divine ground of human life is reflected in a public philosophy which has got a …
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controversial issue in 2020. The Constitution for Europe was lost and a similar Lisbon Treaty took five years of difficult bargaining before it was adopted. Because the negotiations followed such a difficult path the ‘federalist’ approach was put aside. …
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Looking in spiritual direction, the increasing mixture of Muslim believers and post-Christian non-believers across Europe proper has achieved little in terms of promoting social consolidation. Indeed conflicts on racial and religious grounds have …
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efforts put into agreed protocols and international conventions, the sea levels of the oceans have risen catastrophically and many European countries are now having to plan, often in a hurry, to recreate their capital cities if they are sea ports. …
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fair outcome, simply because that country’s wealth is greater than Europes, and its pursuit of policies which sometimes claim Christian inspiration deserves any revenge if not a crackdown. I would like to conclude by saying that as terrorist Somebody …
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As there is no future without the past, all projects and provisions will stay empty vessels without reflection on entire amount of events in our past if those emanating the grace stay there unshaked. A single event can be significant. We have to recall …
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military, and as the dead and the wounded Lithuanians were taken to the hospitals, one witnessing was about a single Russian soldier had been found sitting in an armoured vehicle marked with the Red Star, which had been left in the corner of the empty …
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Vytautas Landsbergis CROSSROAD OF EUROPE Published and printed by UAB “Baltijos kopija” Kareiviy str. 13B, LT-09109 Vilnius, Lithuania …
