Situation of Baltic war veterans a challenge to world community - Margelov
MOSCOW. Feb 12 (Interfax) - Federation Council International Affairs Committee Chairman Mikhail Margelov said that situation facing World War II veterans in the Baltic countries is humiliating.
"The situation of the World War II veterans in the Baltic countries is a challenge to the world community. Just take the law being considered by the Latvian parliament on the status of people mobilized during the World War II!" Margelov said at the joint session of the international affairs committees of the State Duma and Federation Council to discuss the problems of veterans in the Baltic countries.
Margelov said that discrimination of veterans who fought against the fascists is completely in line with the policy of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
Margelov said that he has given a special report in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly on neo-Nazism in Europe, which had a lot of material almost on all European countries, and the worst data was on the Baltic countries.
Margelov said that "remaining Nazis, who escaped retribution, are hiding in Latin America or Africa, and they could have lived peacefully and received corresponding benefits in Estonia," Margelov said. "Unlike anti-fascist veterans they would not be brought to trial and would not be called occupiers in the Baltic countries," Margelov said.
Margelov said that he considered the situation of veterans in the Baltic countries, which is around 12,000 elderly people, humiliating.