ROMANIA:

Past Steps In to Upset Russians

BUCHAREST, Mar 8 (IPS) - Russia and neighbouring Moldova have expressed anger over a Romanian court decision declaring Romania's invasion of the former Soviet Union in 1941 legitimate.

The dispute has not died down after the Bucharest Court of Appeals delivered the decision in December 2006.

http://www.ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=36849

As a consequence of the ruling, members of the Romanian government who had been condemned in 1946 for their decision to attack the Soviet Union together with the Nazis were pardoned of any war crime of invading foreign territory.

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And....

....Antonescu made it to number 6 in the Top 10 of the Greatest Romanians in a vote on a TV show last fall.

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