"Eugene Holman" <holman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:holman-2909081911520001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Many of his viewpoints are indeed repulsive,
> but his raising the issue of the degree to which the word "occupation"
is
> appropriate to the Baltic countries after the early 1950s, or, arguably,
> the mid-1960s, wen they were opened to the world again after having been
> cut off for a generation, is interesting.
Why do you constantly bring up the mid-60's and Kekkonen's Tartu visit as
if
that would have terminated the occupation? What's more, as far as Latvia
and
Lithuania were concerned, that 'window of liberty' was quickly closed
again.
Do you really think that seeing drunken tourists in Tallinn somehow made
life easier for the Estonians?
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