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Titolo: A chi applaude alla demolizione di monumenti di caduti contro il nazismo

Nationalists are exploiting history as discontent grows
da The Guardian
Wednesday April 11, 2007
Across eastern Europe, memorials to those who died fighting the Nazis are
being dismantled and the far right rehabilitated
di
Gyula Hegyi
Across central and eastern Europe, nationalists are exploiting the painful
history of the second world war to whip up anti-Russian feeling and
rehabilitate the far right as social and economic discontent grows - and
the process is mirrored in Russia. The latest in a string of such moves is
the decision by the Polish authorities to block the reopening of the
permanent Russian exhibition at the site of the Auschwitz death camp
because of its description of some of its victims (from annexed pre-war
Polish territory) as Soviet citizens. It's difficult to imagine a more sad
and cynical debate than one about the citizenship of the massacred
millions. Most were of course Jewish, and in the eyes of the Nazis both
Poles and Russians were regarded as Untermenschen.
The Polish decision comes after Estonian MPs decided to remove a Soviet
war memorial from the centre of Tallinn a few weeks back. The act
authorising its removal is the Law on Forbidden Structures Act, a rather
Orwellian name for a new cold war against history. The "forbidden
structure" in this case is a 2m bronze statue of a Soviet soldier erected
in 1947 to commemorate Red Army soldiers killed fighting the Nazis.
Bronze and marble soldiers are being toppled across eastern Europe. The
campaign began in 1989-91 with the withdrawal of Soviet troops: Soviet
memorials were demolished, Russian-sounding names of streets and squares
changed, and red stars from walls cast away. In some countries, the
tensions calmed after the turbulent transition period, but in the Baltic
republics this anti-historical cold war seems to be a permanent crusade.
The removal of the Tallinn memorial is only the tip of the iceberg. A
draft bill recognises the Estonians who served in the German army,
including in the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, as "fighters
for Estonia's independence". Service in the SS is added to the record of
work on retirement, while service in the Red Army as part of the
anti-Hitler coalition is not.
Latvian rightwingers are also active in rewriting history. The marches of
Latvian SS legions are well known - and even the most anti-communist
friends of Latvia in the US and western Europe are shocked by these
state-sponsored Nazi parades. Most Latvian Jews were murdered by Latvian
police, and it is disgusting to read Latvian websites and books that put
the blame on the Jewish victims of the Holocaust as "collaborators of
Stalin".
Of course, there are many in the Baltic republics who reject this
whitewashing of the Nazi past. And there are democrats in the Estonian and
Latvian parliaments (not to mention the strong left in Lithuania), the
media and NGOs, who defend the anti-fascist memorials and oppose the Nazi
cult rallies. The Estonian president spoke out against the "irresponsible
behaviour" of supporters of the "forbidden structures" law. Many Latvians
oppose the SS rallies and call for equal rights for the country's Russian
minority. These democrats need more support from western and central
Europe.
Soviet memorials are respected in Berlin, and visitors to the rebuilt
Reichstag can still see the graffiti carved on the old walls by Russian
soldiers in 1945. Germany has set a good example on how to handle its Nazi
past, but only a few eastern nations are ready to learn from it.
In my hometown, Budapest, the main Soviet memorial on the Szabadsag
(Freedom) Square survived leftwing and rightwing governments. But last
September, extreme rightwing rioters who set fire to the state television
offices also attacked the memorial. In some Hungarian communities, newly
elected rightwing mayors began their jobs by removing Soviet memorials and
symbols.
In the west, the memory of the anti-fascist coalition is largely still
intact, and only a few extremists claim it would have been better to have
been allied with Hitler against the Soviet Union. But in the east, the
fall of the Berlin wall created a vacuum in history. The new politicians
and media failed to tell the complicated truth about the war, the old
pro-Soviet cliches were replaced by anti-Soviet cliches. The tragedy of
the Baltic republics under Soviet rule does not change the fact that the
death camps of Auschwitz were created by the Nazis and liberated by the
Red Army. And the crimes of the Stalinist regime do not alter the fact
that millions of Soviet soldiers died for the freedom of Europe.
The Baltic republics should remember Stalin's victims, and we have to
understand their mixed feeling towards Russia. But those who sacrificed
their lives against the Nazi regime should be heroes for every democrat.
I have memories of Soviet armed intervention. I was five years old during
the 1956 uprising in Hungary. I played with my friends on a Soviet tank
burnt out by Molotov cocktails. I know how heroic the fight against the
Soviet soldiers was. They had come as liberators but, due to the
geopolitical reality, they became oppressors. Opposing the occupation
didn't mean we wanted the Nazis back.
The huge sculpture of a woman on Budapest's Gellert Hill, erected by order
of Marshall Voroshilov, still welcomes the liberators from the east. The
soldiers died, we remember their heroic deaths - and life goes on. That's
why we have memorials. It is a lesson across eastern Europe and the Baltic
republics as well.
· Gyula Hegyi is a Hungarian socialist member of the European parliament
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 commemorazione riguardava la rivolta di Budapest.
la figura da fesso da parte tua č d'obbligo.
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 Si nota lo stesso la tua non risposta.
devo perdere tempo per rispondere ad un fesso porgibutt che applaude
chi butta giu' monumenti dedicato a chi ha combattuto i nazifascisti?

 cialtroneggia, spacciando una cosa per l'altra, come nel tuo caso.
quindi, secondo il pagliaccio scozzese che fa il guardone su ISA, non
solo il deputato socialista ungherese ma anche il presidente Estone
che ha rifiutato di firmare la legge che dovrebbe far smantellare
questi monumenti non e' un democratico ma chissà cosa.
LOL!

 scozzese
Davvero?
Palmiro Pangloss

 Davvero?
segui il gruppo, rinco.
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 Scusa sai, non saro' uno storico. 
infatti è notorio che sei solo un cialtrone con qualche vizietto. Vedi
cazzate che hai postato qui e le fughe da ICSM. lol!
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 Mah.
è così. anche se ora cancelli i tuoi post quelli passati pieni di
cazzate ci sono ancora.

 rinnegato al soldo dei russi.
che altro dovrei rispondere alle cazzate di un meschino guardone di
ISA, slavofobo per giunta?

 Sei tu che hai fatto obiezione e io vi ho risposto.
si, hai risposto da cialtrone come sempre.

 Se uno e' un democratico queste cose le sa,
e quindi plaude a chi erige monumenti in onore delle SS....grazie di
averci dato la prova provata di essere un nazista, in salsa inglese,
ma sempre nazista...

 Detto da un amico di ogni dittatura e terrorismo e' una raccomandazione.
certo, amico dei golpisti e del criminale contro l'umanità Bliar...
*pat pat*

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il cialtrone non riesce proprio a capire la differenza tra monumenti
al regime sovietico e monumenti ai caduti sovietici che hanno
combattuto contro i nazifascisti.