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| | | News |  Tue May 15, 2007 11:04 pm by Admin | 
Russia tells EU: Don't rewrite history
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia attacked the European Union on Tuesday for failing to stop what it said was an attempt by new EU member states to rewrite the history of World War Two and glorify Nazism.
Speaking before a summit between the EU and Russia on Friday, President Vladimir Putin's top adviser on EU affairs, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, told Reuters the bloc had been "hypocritical" not to condemn Estonia when it moved a Soviet-era war memorial away from the centre of its capital.
He said the row between Russia and Estonia over the bronze statue of a World War Two Red Army soldier indicated a wider problem.
"We believe there are increasing attempts by some members of the EU -- all of them are new entrants -- to railroad the EU and Europe as a whole in the direction of reviewing the political results of World War Two," he said in an interview.
"This is a very dangerous tendency, this is a challenge to ... the values of the EU that were formed on the basis of the results of World War Two," he added.
"What is being done in Estonia, in Latvia -- we talked about this in past summits -- these are attempts to make the Nazi past heroic ... and put up monuments to the Waffen SS and rewrite history, and attempts to put the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the same level."
Memories of World War Two and the Soviet communist domination of large swathes of Europe that followed it are still raw, both in Russia and eastern Europe.
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