Posted on 05/03/2015 8:22:53 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Lithuanian political scientist Raimundas Lopata believes Lithuania’s decision to completely boycott the Russian Victory Day military parade on May 9, is “in line with Lithuania’s declared foreign policy attitudes” towards the Vladimir Putin-led Russian government.
The Victory Day parade is the Russian Federation’s equivalent of V.E. day and takes place in Moscow’s Red Square. The 2015 edition will mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union’s war with Nazi Germany.
As a result of Western sanctions on Russia following the MH17 disaster in July 2014, most EU and Western leaders will not attend this year’s Victory Day. Instead, they will send their top-ranking officials residing in the Russian capital.
The United States will send its Moscow-based ambassador John Tefft, while the United Kingdom has yet to take a decision on its representative.
However, on April 27, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite announced that neither the Lithuanian ambassador to Russia nor other diplomats would be attending the parade.
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For the Lithuanians the Soviet victory was nothing to celebrate.
Or for Poles, Latvians, Estonians, Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, East Germans, etc etc etc etc....
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