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["Post-Yalta world" is a quote from Zbigniew Brzezinski's latest, 1997, tome The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives which, among many fascinating items, contains a chapter called "The Eurasian Balkans" which charts out most everything that has transpired subsequently in the Caspian Sea basin and Central Asia, including the current Afghan campaign. Pre-Yalta world would have been more to the point. Eduard Benes, the president of Czechoslovakia before the Nazi invasion and again afterwards, is noted for selling his nation down the river at Munich as well as his mass-scale ethnic purges of Volkdeutsch afterwards, before the Czechoslovak people had the good sense to elect Klement Gottwald in 1948. Benes' daughter married the very same Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose preeminent intern was none other than Madeleine Albright, daughter of Joseph Korbel, a key aide of Eduard Benes...and so it goes. Post-Yalta Europe looks increasingly like 1941.] Austrian Defense Minister Demands Abolition of Benes Decrees PRAGUE, Jan 3, 2002 -- (Radio Prague) The Austrian Defense Minister and deputy chairman of the far-right Freedom Party Herbert Scheibner has said he expects the Czech Republic to abolish the Benes Decrees before its entry to the European Union. Under the post-war decrees issued by the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes, some 2.5 million Germans were deported from Czechoslovakia and their property seized by the state. Mr Schreibner expressed hope that a solution to the issues of the Czech Temelin nuclear power station and the Benes Decrees would be found in the course of EU accession talks. However, he refused to say whether the Freedom Party would call for an Austrian veto of the Czech Republic's entry to the EU over the Benes Decrees, as the party has threatened to do if Temelin is put into commercial operation. (C) 2002 Radio Prague. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
