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| Russian official calls for investigation of Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bombings | |
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| arvcab | Dec 27 2014, 06:22 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.stripes.com/news/europe/russian-official-calls-for-investigation-of-hiroshima-nagasaki-a-bombings-1.321132 MOSCOW (Tribune Content Agency) — A leading Russian elected official on Thursday called for an investigation of the United States’ atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II as a “crime against humanity.” The effort to reconsider history by Sergei Naryshkin, the parliament’s lower house speaker, comes after similar calls by colleagues earlier in the week to revisit significant events involving Russia in the the 20th century. On Wednesday, lawmaker Frants Klintsevich of the ruling United Russia faction called on his colleagues to reconsider or even annul a 1989 statement of the then-Soviet Union’s Congress of People’s Deputies denouncing its military invasion in Afghanistan, which lasted 10 years and led to the deaths of about 15,000 Soviet servicemen and hundreds of thousands of Afghans. Earlier in the week, upper house speaker Valentina Matviyenko sought to void the 1954 handover of Crimea from the Russian Federation to the then-Soviet republic of Ukraine. That action was in effect annulled in March when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Crimea after a referendum whose fairness was questioned by many analysts. Relations between Putin and the West are growing increasingly frosty as the former Cold War rivals escalate their rhetoric and actions over the fate of Russian neighbor Ukraine. Critics warn that efforts by the Kremlin to rewrite history were a hallmark of the Soviet communist era of totalitarian rule. Soviet leader Josef Stalin was very good at rewriting contemporary history, but even he never abolished any of the decrees issued by Emperor Nicolas II,” said Gleb Pavlovsky, president of the Efficient Policy Foundation, a Moscow think tank and a former Kremlin adviser. |
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