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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Holocaust victims are sacrosanct. Nazi murderers are monsters. Such basic truths are obvious to all civilized people, but not so in Lithuania. Since Lithuania achieved independence in 1990, they have rewritten history. The retreat of the Soviets in the face of the Nazi invasion in 1941 has bee...

A first in Colombia: eight FARCs charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity 2 February 2021By Andrés Bermúdez Liévano, our correspondent in Colombia Last Thursday, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace announced its first major decision, accusing eight top leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in what has been the clearest result so far for transitional justice in the country. Share Republish × You are free to republish this article both online and in print. We ask that you follow some simple rules describe...

The Tablet January 25, 2021 By Inés San Martín ROSARIO, Argentina (Crux) — The mayor of a small town in southern Spain forcibly removed a cross from the doors of a convent. The crucifix was then found in a garbage dump. The events took place last week in the town of Aguilar de la Frontera, in the Diocese of Cordoba, in the Andalusia region in southern Spain. The cross was located at the entrance of the church that belongs to the adjoining convent of the Discalced Carmelites, and had been there since 1939. It was erected to honor the Nationalist victims of Spain’s civil war, altho...

From outpouring of support to hostility – how do Russians see Baltics today? 81 People in Moscow march in solidarity with Lithuania carrying Russian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian flags. / AP Decades after thousands of Muscovites marched for Baltic independence, the mood in Russia today is a far cry from the outpouring of support in 1991. What has changed? Aliide Naylor, author of The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front, writes for LRT English. Thirty years ago this month, following the Soviet military suppression of Lithuania’s independence drive, between 300,000 and ...

Mortal field of land. A little death. Federico García Lorca, Huerta de San Vicente, Granada, 1932 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (public domain) Does anyone ever consider that their death is “little?” One would hardly think so, for it is far too personal, an end to being altogether; but perhaps as Lorca’s assassins led him away in the foothills outside Granada, the poet told himself that his death was foretold and therefore inexorable. Aaron Shulman’s The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spani...