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Before they realized what is going on and who was robbing them, the Lithuanian people got clubbered by PM Kubilius’ ambitious austerity policy and the younger ones started emigrating in catastrophic numbers, seeing no future in the country whose GDP was reduced (from a low post-Soviet level) by some 20% by the combination of the old nomenklatura rent-seeking policies and the global Great Recession. Lithuania is hollowing out, unfortunately. By Val Samonis Palemonas Legend: A Tale of Two EU Nations Since the annus mirabilis 1989 the theory was that Central and Eastern Europe, CEE, would use its abundant and relatively educated labor force to grow faster and on a more sustainable and consumer-oriented (prosperity) basis due to shift to markets and euro-integration. What got in the way is the theory of (rational?) expectations? True, CEE did receive a sort of a very modest version of Marshall Plan from the EU.

True to four EU freedoms, Western Europe is opening to labor movements (emigration) from CEE. So when new CEE policymakers were implementing liberal market reforms, they should have anticipated some outflows of labor force to higher bidders in Western Europe due to simple demonstration effect. What got in the way is the law of unintended consequences in complex processes? When the British opened their labor markets to the East, they anticipated some 10-12 thousand immigrants from Poland, for example, what they got is some one million and rising. Who knows what the figure will be when Germany opens this May? The tale of two EU nations: What got in the way is the paradigm of hard-to-calculate policy externalities?

“DOUBLE GENOCIDE” Three major flaws mar Mr. Cohen’s attempt Boris Bakunas By: Dr. Boris Vytautas Bakunas, Ph.D. Cohen may appear to make a sincere effort to present a balanced view in his article; however, three major flaws mar his attempt.

First, the article is based on the logical fallacy of false dichotomy, also known as the either-or fallacy. Second, the scales of balance in Mr. Cohen’s presentation waver as a result of his failure to present all the relevant facts related to the establishment of The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius. Mastercraft 52 0060 2 manual transmission.

Cohen obfuscates two crucial terms: Holocaust and genocide. First, let us consider Mr. Cohen's portrayal of Post-Soviet historiography as a series of 'faltering attempts to deal with a thorny question: Were Lithuanians chiefly perpetrators (of Nazi crimes against Jews) or victims (of Soviet crimes against the nation)?' By posing his question in an either-or fashion, Mr. Cohen tacitly assumes that an entire nation can be characterized as falling within the one of two mutually exclusive categories: perpetrators or victims. In point of fact, some Lithuanians collaborated with their Nazi overlords, while others rescued Jewish Lithuanians at the risk of their own lives and those of their children.

Individual accounts of their heroic deeds can be found in Gilbert Martin's excellent book 'The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust.' Characterizing an entire group based solely on the actions of its worst or even its best representatives results in ethnic stereotyping, which clouds judgment and inflames passion. Cohen also claims that The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius “reflects a still-skewed national psyche” because it is devoted to Soviet crimes against Lithuanian partisans and not to the Jewish victims of the Nazis. Yet he fails to mention two important facts.

The Vilnius Genocide Museum occupies the former KGB headquarters where Lithuanian partisans and others judged to be enemies of the Communist regime were imprisoned and tortured, while the Nazi genocide against Lithuanian Jews is memorialized in Kaunas’ 9th Fort Museum, where the Jewish people of Lithuania in the thousands were massacred. By selectively presenting only one relevant fact, Mr. Cohen slants his article towards a particular point of view. Cohen's third error resides in confusing the terms Holocaust and genocide.

The Holocaust was indeed a unique event -- in the same way that the Holodomor, the systematic famine engineered by Stalin in 1932-33 in which up to 10 million Ukrainians perished as well as the Massacre of Armenians during and right after the First World War were unique events. All instances of systematic mass murder are events unique to a particular time, place, and historical context. And all fall within the bounds of the superordinate concept of genocide. The term 'genocide' was first coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who lost 49 relatives during the Holocaust. After the war, Mr. Lemkin tirelessly campaigned for the establishment of international laws defining and forbidding genocide. In many of his writings and during many public appearances, Mr.