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Dealing with totalitarian regimes

Oct 07, 2009
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

LIBERATING WORK: In 1952, Lithuanian deportees are cutting trees in Irkutsk region, Siberia.
VILNIUS - The first reading of a draft amendment to the penal code, which provoked angry reactions in Moscow, took place in the Lithuanian parliament on Sept. 29. The draft states that a person who justifies Soviet and Nazi occupations could be sentenced to up to two years of prison. The draft was passed in the first reading when 41 MPs voted in favor of it and 25 MPs voted against, while 13 MPs abstained. The draft must pass two more votes in the parliament to become law. On Sept. 29, the deba ...

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