The Klaipeda city court has acquitted a group of history enthusiasts for using posters with swastikas on them during the Independence Day parade on 16 February in Klaipeda. The court on 18 May ruled to terminate the administrative case against the four youth on grounds that the Swastikas used on the posters were photographs of an archaeological finding in Lithuania and initially the swastika was the sign of the sun.
“These are not Nazi symbols, but valuable symbols of the Baltic culture. The symbols of our forefathers, which were taken away, fabricated and crippled by other nations. It is not fascism, but the architecture of the universe that they represent,” Milvydas Jusakauskas, the defence counsel’s witness from Vilnius said as reported by BNS after the court hearing.
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“…there are still some in Lithuania who are blind to the significance of World War II and wish to confuse the rest of the world by their political and national insensitivity…”
Hmmm. Then what is the rest of the world if it can be confused by “some lithuanians”? Some sick effete one? And why the WWII is mentioned at all? The case was about the police and some archaeological findings. One should know the prehistory of the case before starting to make odd conclusions. And what does “have they learned nothing?” means? Have they taught us? Who? In any case it has nothing to do whith the court. It seems that some racists are trying to make mischief. I mean, the ones from abroad who pour demagogy and trying to make mischief, perhaps, can be called racists, in english language? Or is there more adequate word? I’m open to learn
lol and jews forgot holocaust and now making same to citizens of palestina
what a shame…
-2 to balance things out
What if the nazis had used Gabriel’s face as a symbol?
After the Nazis regime corrupted whatever value
Gabriel’s face may have had and made it into a sign of infamy, after the Nazis gave his face an overwhelming historical signficance that has and will continue to cast a shadow over mankind, it is amazing to think that Gabriel is still blind to the significance of World War II and wishes to confuse the rest of the world by his political and national insensitivity. Has he learned nothing?
I think this judgment is patheic. After the Nazis regime corrupted whatever value
such a symbol may have had historically and made it into a sign of infamy, after the Nazis gave the Swastika an overwhelming historical signficance that has and will continue to cast a shadow over mankind, it is amazing to think that there are still some in Lithuania who are blind to the significance of World War II and wish to confuse the rest of the world by their political and national insensitivity. Have they learned nothing?