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111944
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2012.
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THERE WERE TWO MEMORABLE EVENTS this autumn whose importance for today's international relations and foreign policy of the future can hardly be overestimated. The whole world was remembering with sorrow this past September 11 the terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania ten years ago. On October 1, without exaggeration, the entire part of humanity sober-minded and caring to remember marked 65 years of the sentences meted out to the Nazi criminals at Nuremberg.
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THE WEST'S judicial and legal activities, including efforts to give the military conflict in Ukraine the semblance of an international criminal procedure - putting Russia as a whole, its military, and top officials on trial, as it were - are inevitable and predictable. In the past, international law in its traditional form (and at some point, since World War II, also in the form of criminal procedure) used to take center stage only after the cessation of hostilities, as the victors' right to define a new international order, but these days, it tends to accompany military actions and sometimes even precede them. This has to do with, among other things, the transformation of classical wars into "hybrid" ones that include not only military but also information, economic, and other components and feature no less fierce and crucial legal battles. It also has to do with the unwillingness of certain Western elites to risk their lives on the actual battlefield, participating instead in armchair battles and seeking to appropriate the morally unchallenged legacy of World War II while demonizing the enemy who will allegedly be put on trial at a new Nuremberg tribunal, etc.
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107121
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2011.
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OFFICIALS IN RIGA once again claimed that members of the Latvian SS Waffen Legion were innocent. They did this shortly before March 16. 2011 marked in Latvia by surviving Waffen SS veterans and their admirers. In particular, the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Latvia put on its website appropriate documents of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in an attempt to refute, in retrospect, the Tribunal's ruling that the Latvian SS Legion was a "criminal group" "consisting of persons who were officially admitted as SS members." There was a reference to that part of the Tribunal's ruling which speaks of excluding from the "criminal group" "those individuals who were recruited into this organization by government agencies in a manner that left them no other opportunity, as well as other persons who have not participated in the commission of similar crimes." The Latvian diplomats' seeking excuses is part and parcel of the policy of glorification of the SS Legion, whose essence is spelled out in the still valid declaration of Latvia's Saeima (parliament) on Latvian Waffen SS Legion members of October 29, 1998. This document says: "The objective of the Latvians, both drafted and voluntarily enlisted in the Legion, was to protect Latvia against the restoration of the Stalinist regime. They had never participated in the punitive actions of the Nazis against civilians."
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