This amendment was proposed as part of a campaign to have Soviet genocide crimes incorporated into the European Union legal regulation, said the parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs.
"This is a deplorable step the Seimas [Lithuanian parliament] has taken, and one that undermines the foundations of Lithuania's foreign policy, the dignity of those aggrieved by the Nazi and Soviet occupations, one that weakens Lithuania's stance in aiming for EU's equitable assessment of Nazi and Soviet crimes", international law expert Dainius Zalimas told BNS.
"He, who publicly consented, in writing or verbally, to the aggression carried out by the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany against Lithuania, justified, belittled or denied it, would be punishable by fine, arrest or imprisonment for up to two years," said the failed amendment, proposed by Conservative MP Vilija Aleknaite-Abramikiene.
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