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2016-02-28 Europe

Lithuanian town plans to name street after priest who organized gang that murdered Jews

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-28 01:52|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Lithuanian writer Ruta Vanagaite launched an investigation into Zvinys at the behest of Simon Wiesenthal Center Nazi hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff, with whom she recently co-authored a book on Lithuanians and the Holocaust.

That's the ticket! It's a scant 75 or 80 years? Keep it stirred up, even beyond rigor mortis. They're nearly all gone you see. He was obviously a Christian and it's their turn in front of the klieg lights. Death really is the last taboo. I recommend exhumation, a speedy trial, and if he can hold together, the block. He's certainly no flight risk. Book sales will likely benefit as well. Hat tip to the sleuths at the SWC.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-28 02:17|| 2016-02-28 02:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It would be nice to have allies that did not make one feel sleazy being within 100 miles of them.

Posted by Nguard 2016-02-28 04:16|| 2016-02-28 04:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Nguard__ closer to home, the main street in SF's Chinatown, Grant Street, is named after a man who headed up a pogrom against the town's Chinese.

Posted by Mercutio 2016-02-28 12:51|| 2016-02-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr. B., for dawg's sake let it go. All is good, they English didn't only kill the boors, hell they killed everyone. It is all good. Now have a toke, it's spSunday and this is a good bong. :)

Posted by Shipman 2016-02-28 14:24|| 2016-02-28 14:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah, Ship, let's all jack off to the idea that we are fighting g The Nazis by selling people out to the guy who's arming Iran.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-02-28 17:23|| 2016-02-28 17:23|| Front Page Top

#6 "Speaking with The Jerusalem Post from Vilnius on Thursday, Vanagaite said that after searching through KGB archives she discovered that the priest indeed set up the gang in question, one of whose leaders was his own brother, who would later confess to his role in the massacre."

We have KGB archives, we have a confession in Stalin's time...

Posted by European Conservative 2016-02-28 18:50|| 2016-02-28 18:50|| Front Page Top

#7 There seems to be some disagreement in Wikipedia, Mercutio:

When California came under the control of the United States following the Mexican-American War, the street now called Grant was named Dupont Street, in honor of a Naval admiral from the USS Portsmouth (Portsmouth Square, located one block east, was named after that ship). In the following years, Dupont Street became the location for various opium dens, brothels, and Tong wars.[citation needed]

When San Francisco was rebuilt after being leveled in the 1906 earthquake, Dupont Street was upgraded and given a new name: Grant Avenue, after President Ulysses S. Grant.

Posted by JHH 2016-02-28 20:02|| 2016-02-28 20:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Per one of the comments at the linked article:

"Because he was part of resistance against the soviets. The alleged involvment in the killings of jews was not known until now. If true, his place will be in the historical dumpster, not on the street names."

If true, a note to that effect should have appeared in the article.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-02-28 22:13|| 2016-02-28 22:13|| Front Page Top

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