A participant of the match marking the 60th anniversary of the former Soviet Union's victory in the WW2 carries a poster that reads "Shame. Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania".
Photo: Dmitry Saltykovsky
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Lithuanian Fascists Defend Honor
Prosecutor General’s Office of Lithuania will decide on the claim brought in by five former members of the anti-Soviet resistance. Based on the talk show held by TV3 on the eve of the Victory Day, Forest Brethren members demand to initiate a criminal case against the WW2 veterans.
Kommersant found out the claim was filed on behalf of the Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees, Lithuanian Fight for Freedom Movement, Union of Lithuanian Prisoners and Saiudis movement. According to the prosecutors’ briefer, it was duly registered and the prosecutors have stepped in the proceedings to determine whether there are grounds for a criminal case. Kostas Baniavichus and Johnas Gouriaskas are named as defendants. When speaking in the talk show, Baniavichus said the former forest brothers were imbecile bushmen, hiding in the wood to avoid to be called to the Soviet Army and waiting for the aid from the United States. He also said they were killing old women and children by hitting them against the walls.
The briefer said antifascist veterans may face charges under three clauses of Lithuanian Criminal Code that set forth penalty or up to three-year imprisonment for slander.
One of the claimants, Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners Chairman Povilas Jakucionis made it clear they are not against all WW2 veterans but against some definite persons who said definite worlds. There are lots of decent people among the veterans but such words could be uttered only by the members of the NKVD mopping-up battalions. It is necessary to make them understand that they are living not in the Soviet but in independent Lithuania, Jakucionis specified.
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