Saturday, May 7, 2005

Wartime Apologies

'Russian President Vladimir Putin said recently that the three Baltic states had been "treated as pawns in world politics" but said Moscow had already apologised and would not do so again.

"Must we do this every day, every year? That is downright senseless," he told German television.'

Russia's leader on the takeover of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1940 and 1944, as the sixtieth anniversary of Victory in Europe days are about to take place in Moscow. Imagine a Japanese or German leader trying to get away with saying something like that.

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