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Russia Doesn’t Like Bush Soviet Crack
The Russian Foreign Ministry sharply criticized U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday for calling Nazi fascism and Soviet communism evils of the 20th century. The Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the excesses of the Soviet regime had received “an objective evaluation in modern democratic Russia,” and insisted that he phenomenon was incomparable with fascism. The American president’s statement was found on a proclamation on Captive Nations’ Week issued on July 18 and posted on the White House website. “In the 20th century, the evils of Soviet communism and Nazi fascism were defeated and freedom spread around the world as new democracies emerged,” the proclamation reads.
“The phrase, under which the U.S. president signed, cannot but wound the hearts not only of Russian participants in that war, but, we think, veterans from other countries of the anti-Hitler coalition as well, including the Americans,” the Russian Foreign Ministry opined, concluding “It is sad that, in the new realities of the 21st century, the old Cold War for people’s minds continues, and with the use of dubious methods. That is the wrong way.”
The Russian Orthodox Church is not in accord with the ministry. On Friday, deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department of external relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin stated on the air on Russian News Service radio that Russians must “sort out our attitude to the Bolshevik regime, which seized power and subjected its own people to heavy suffering.” “The stars have to be taken down from the Kremlin and monuments to Bolshevik criminals like Lenin should not be standing in the center of our cities,” Chaplin added. He said that the Russian people had to do so “faster than the Ukrainians and Estonians” in order to “deprive other countries of the possibility of placing an equal sign between the Russian people and the crimes of the Soviet era.”
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All the Article in Russian as of July 28, 2008
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