Exclusive: Ukraine tensions keep Putin away from Auschwitz anniversary

[uhnope]

Source: Reuters / Yahoo

WARSAW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp this month because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine has cast a pall on arrangements to commemorate the Holocaust.

The Nazi camp where about 1.5 million people were killed, most of them Jews, became a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust and a war that ravaged Europe. Seventy years later, conflict and political division are hampering preparations to mark the anniversary of its liberation.

Host country Poland - one of the most vociferous critics of Moscow over the Ukraine crisis - did not send a full diplomatic invitation to Putin, wary of the domestic political consequences of inviting the Russian leader, according to sources briefed on arrangements for the Jan. 27 event.

Moscow, in turn, was upset by what it viewed as a slight by Warsaw and has therefore not made plans for the president to attend, said the sources, who declined to be named due to the diplomatic sensitivity of the matter.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ukraine-tensions-keep-putin-away-auschwitz-anniversary-174111649.html

[Duckhunter935]

1. Good

He should be viewed as unwelcome at any international event until he stops invading and threatening other sovereign nations.

[Purveyor]

2. Well then I suppose the US shouldn't be welcomed on the internationial stage in that

case...should we?

Our deeds have/are resulting in 100's of thousands civilian casualties over the past decade.

What is Russia's decade count in that regard?

[uhnope]

5. god what a desperate post

but what else does Putin want us to think?

[Purveyor]

10. Just what is 'desperate' about it and what part can you dispute? eom

[og1]

7. Do you feel the same about American adventurism

[Duckhunter935]

8. yes, pretty much

however the difference is we do not take the land and annex it as part of the US unlike Russia.

[ozone_man]

11. Really?

What about Texas and California? What about the entire U.S. stolen from Native Americans?

Now we just bomb countries to smithereens and take their oil. Iraq, Libya, Syria,..

[msongs]

3. russia has a bloody history of killing jews he should stay away nt

[uhnope]

4. +1. Not to mention their current history of Kremlin-sponsored neo-Nazi death squads

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017229540

and

Moscow Tear Gas Attack Shows Rise of Anti-Semitism in Putin Era

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/207171/moscow-tear-gas-attack-shows-rise-of-anti-semitism/?p=all#ixzz3OfVc6NHP

and Russia's use of false accusations of anti-Semiticism in their war on Ukraine:

Jews reject Russia claims of Ukraine anti-Semitism
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29991777

[Duckhunter935]

6. and the new opression of the

Crimean ethnic Tartar population that they deported in the past and now are doing again.

[Bragi]

9. So the country with the most casualties fighting Hitler isn't invited

This is petty politics at its worst.

[Duckhunter935]

12. not entirely true

no country was actually "invited"

Formal invitations to foreign delegations were sent not by the Polish government but by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and International Auschwitz Council, the joint organizers.

According to a source involved in negotiations over the event, the Polish government sent foreign states what is called a "note verbale" about the Auschwitz events - a notification which falls short of being a formal invitation.

From the linked story