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  Member of European Parliament Vytautas Landsbergis made a statement "On Russian political offensive approaching the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II".

On Russian political offensive approaching the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II

The week between the 70th anniversaries of the Germany-USSR treaty of non-aggression (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) and the beginning of the World War II is and will be filled with desperate offensives of Russian diplomacy. There are movies, publications and various protests.

The war broke out next day after Moscow ratified Non-aggression pact with A. Hitler. In this treaty the USSR took obligations not to help "the third party", which will be involved in the war with Germany. In truth Soviets were helping Germany in all its wars until June 1941. Secret protocols were neither published, nor ratified, and this especially stresses their criminal essence and unlawfulness from the very moment they were signed. That was established and declared on the highest level of the USSR authority, i.e. declared by the USSR Congress of People's Deputies on the 24th of December 1989. It would be worth to commemorate this outstanding 20 years old fact, the honourable document for Russia, in December this year.

              So far, unfortunately, present Russian leadership is looking and moving into opposite direction. Instead of disassociating from crimes of Stalin era, among those also initiation of World War II, they are rushing about declaring alleged "evidences", that it was absolutely necessary for Stalin to put together with Hitler. They are speculating that conspiracy was worth gains. Obstacles in negotiations with Britain and France are stressed keeping in silence parallel secret negotiations between Moscow and Berlin. Some stepped even so far that justify former Soviet ally A. Hitler, saying that it was Poland allegedly guilty for outbreak of war. If Lithuania would have refused Hitler's ultimatum on Klaipeda, and Western democracies would have protected Lithuania on those days, then today the Republic of Lithuania could be blamed for triggering off war. This is logic of Kremlin militarists. Finland and Georgia as well are guilty for attacks on them in 1939 and 2008 respectively.

              Today Russian politicians are condemning former "Versailles order" again. In the same manner it was condemned by revanchist A. Hitler's Germany and in outrageous offensive words by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and signatory of the pact V. Molotov about Poland, when she was collapsing under attacks of "socialist" tyrannies. Next signatory was hanged up in accordance with Nurnberg tribunal sentence even not allowing him, J. von Ribbentrop being accused for another crimes, to speak out about the greatest bilateral crime - preliminary agreement of the 23rd of August 1939 on dividing of common plunder, if there the "territorial-political rearrangement" in the space of four Baltic states and Poland will happen. So they wrote both under J. Stalin's supervision. It is clear that they agreed not "if", but that rearrangement definitely will take place in accordance with the will of parties in agreement. Agreement was carried out in a cooperative manner, military victory was washed up in celebration (in Brest) with champagne, and after finishing the execution of Poland, Stalin utilized vocabulary of criminal world par excellence, when he announced that USSR and Germany from this moment are "bonded with ties of blood".

                Bonding ties of blood was continued in Katyn and nearby camps, killing many thousands of Polish prisoners of war for their "anti-Soviet propaganda" according to sentence signed by Stalin and his gang in March 1940.

                Russia does not have other honourable way out than break away with bonding ties with Hitler then, to recognize and condemn repeatedly, after1989, this dark page of its Soviet history. All efforts to ignore conclusion of the USSR Congress of People's Deputies and to justify crimes  will be equal to satanic arguments of Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Kalinin and others, that Polish prisoners of war should be executed firing into their napes for their unsuitable mutual talks and prayers.

Independent German politicians should help Kremlin.

                                                                                                                                                                            Vytautas Landsbergis

Brussels,

28.08.2009.