There are marches of SS vets with some frequency in both Latvia and Estonia (don't know about Lithuania) and monuments to the SS in both those countries. On the other hand, I have been told by Latvians that many of them were forced into the SS by the Germans. I do not know if that is true or not.
Yushchenko's father was in Auschwitz. This was not publicized during his campaign so as not to offend the West Ukrainian nationalists in Galicia.
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: "Zuroff complained that while Latvia has managed to prosecute several former Soviet functionaries for Communist crimes, not a single Nazi collaborator has been tried since the country became independent. In 2000 Zuroff discovered that at least forty-one Latvian members of the Arajs Kommando, a notorious Latvian security unit implicated in the shootings of thousands of Jews, had just been officially rehabilitated and rewarded with increased pensions . . . Both the Latvian Parliament and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga--whom Zuroff labeled a "metaphor for the whole problem"--at one time considered combining the day of the SS march with the national memorial holiday" [at <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ames>]; "Remember all the frothy praise of Viktor Yuschenko and what a great democrat he was -- back when he was the leader of the so-called Orange Revolution that toppled the corrupt Ukrainian regime of President Leonid Kuchma (left) -- from George Bush, the neocons, Freedom House, and the Western press in general? Well, this week a little-noticed dispatch from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (the worldwide Jewish news service founded in 1917) related how now-President Yushchenko (above right) has just awarded Ukraine's highest honor -- the "Hero of Ukraine" medal -- to a notorious anti-Semite, Ivan Spodarenko. But not a word of this outrage has appeared in the major U.S. dailies." [<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/02/ ukraines_yusche.html>], etc.).
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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