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It had earlier escaped my attention, but thanks to a Russian colleague, I was notified that the NGO Human Rights Watch wrote a letter in April to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) regarding the selection procedure for candidates from the Russian Federation. In this letter it expressed its grave concern over the manner in which the national slection procedure had been conducted and asked PACE to send back the submitted list of three candidates. This is the full text of the letter:
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Jan Fischer is the human face of ‘Klausism’.
With Jan Fischer leading in the polls for president, it is worth asking what we might expect from him if elected by the people. May we dare to hope that he would use his popular legitimacy to press ahead with, rather than to obstruct, as President Klaus has obstructed, the painful task of healing the maladies of Czech politics?
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… One should also pay attention to how the following leaders were selected by Moscow. The next president was Antonin Zapotocky, co-founder of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Capo in Sachsenhousen concentration camp during WW2. The Netherlands unsuccessfully demanded his extradition for participation in execution of Dutch citizens. After his death in 1957, he was replaced by Antonin Novotny, communist party member since 1921 and Capo in Mauthausen concentration camp 1941-1945. And we can follow this pattern even after the so-called fall of communism. Vaclav Havel was approved to become the President by Moscow and Vaclav Klaus today is a KGB agent. Not to many people today realize that socialism, or communism—whatever we call it—leads only to corruption, lack of productivity and ultimately lack of morale by promoting unmotivated and lazy people. …
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No End in Signy: Institute for Historical Review
Since 1951 Germany has paid more than 102 billion marks, about $61.8 billion at 1998 exchange rates, in federal government reparation payments to Israel and Third Reich victims. In addition, Germans have paid out billions in private and other public funds, including about 75 million marks ($49 million) by German firms in compensation to wartime forced laborers, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported recently. These figures are based on calculations by the German Finance Ministry, the influential paper said.
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