Lithuanian officials are discussing ways to prevent political extremism. According to sources in Vilnius, the officials discussed recent statements made by the head of a neo-Nazi group and by the newly elected mayor of the city of Kaunas, who referred to some Lithuanians who participated in wartime atrocities against Jews as “Lithuanian national heroes.”
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