Court orders Latvia to compensate war veteran
Published: 24 July, 2008, 14:14
Edited: 23 May, 2010, 22:43
A Russian WW2 veteran convicted and imprisoned for genocide by a court in Riga has won a rights case against Latvia in the European Court of Human Rights. The court has ordered Latvia to pay Vasily Kononov 30,000 euros i
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It's time to move on from the horrors of Stalinism and Nazism. Seems to me that the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania want to force the Russian Federation to admit to the Stalinist crimes against their nations, no less than the Jews wanted the Germans to admit and atone for their crimes against the Jews. It's was a lot easier to force the Germans to their knees than it will be for force the Russians to admit responsibility for the crimes of Stalin and his Georgian thugs since the Russian people feel no collective like the Germans. My advice to the Baltics is to forget about the past and move on.