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Unanimous Vote Is Final Step Toward Removing Roosevelt Statue
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<blockquote data-quote="BobRyan" data-source="post: 76043039" data-attributes="member: 235244"><p>From the Financial Times:</p><p></p><p>"In 1987 the Soviet Union and Poland took the unusual step of setting up a<span style="color: #ff0000"> commission for the study of “blank spots” in their common history </span>— that is to say, <strong>sensitive events banned from public discussion or falsified for ideological purposes</strong>. The initiative was kept under the supervision of each country’s <span style="color: #ff0000">communist establishment.</span> Still, it was the first tentative official acknowledgment that not just historical events but also decades of silence and lies surrounding them had undermined trust between the two countries. <strong>More than 30 years on, the manipulation of history for political ends is returning</strong> with a vengeance. In the closing days of 2019, Russian president Vladimir Putin defended the Nazi-Soviet pact of August 1939 and blamed the outbreak of the second world war on alleged collusion between Adolf Hitler and European governments, including that of Poland."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BobRyan, post: 76043039, member: 235244"] From the Financial Times: "In 1987 the Soviet Union and Poland took the unusual step of setting up a[COLOR=#ff0000] commission for the study of “blank spots” in their common history [/COLOR]— that is to say, [B]sensitive events banned from public discussion or falsified for ideological purposes[/B]. The initiative was kept under the supervision of each country’s [COLOR=#ff0000]communist establishment.[/COLOR] Still, it was the first tentative official acknowledgment that not just historical events but also decades of silence and lies surrounding them had undermined trust between the two countries. [B]More than 30 years on, the manipulation of history for political ends is returning[/B] with a vengeance. In the closing days of 2019, Russian president Vladimir Putin defended the Nazi-Soviet pact of August 1939 and blamed the outbreak of the second world war on alleged collusion between Adolf Hitler and European governments, including that of Poland." [/QUOTE]
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