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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Lithuania calls Putin’s UN speech ‘neo-Stalinist’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Tuesday slams her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a speech he delivered at the United Nations General Assembly that she says was reminiscent of Soviet-era totalitarianism.
The outspoken leader of the formerly Soviet-ruled, EU state says Putin’s criticism of the West suggests he “was still living in the 20th century.”
“I would even call it a ‘neo-Stalinist’ speech when dictatorships are praised, where democracy is criticized and the West is blamed for everything,” Grybauskaite says, drawing a comparison with dictator Joseph Stalin.
“We have heard this rhetoric for almost 100 years, and nothing has changed,” she tells Lithuania’s LRT public broadcaster according to segments released by her office.
— AFP
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