Tokens: The
Court
was
presented
with
an
opportunity
to
refer
to
what
happened
in
the
Soviet
era
and
in
which
the
applicant
was
a
wilful
participant
by
its
proper
name
.
Through
this
case
-
law
,
it
has
shied
away
from
so
doing
,
preferring
instead
to
conclude
that
the
applicant
was
wronged
for
having
been
convicted
of
genocide
by
the
Lithuanian
courts
.
The
only
avenue
to
this
conclusion
was
the
Court
’s
excessively
formalistic
and
rather
blinkered
approach
of
viewing
the
partisans
solely
through
the
lens
of
a
“
political
group
”
and
of
ending
its
analysis
there
.
Its
failure
to
engage
in
any
meaningful
way
with
the
reasoning
of
the
national
courts
on
the
role
of
the
partisans
in
the
defence
of
the
Lithuanian
nation
is
lamentable
.
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