MOSCOW OUTRAGED BY CHARGE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN KOENIGSBERG/KALININGRAD.

Russian Foreign Ministry chief spokesman Gennady Tarasov yesterday described as "impudent revanchist calls" remarks made recently in the U.S. by Lithuanian parliament chairman Vytautas Landsbergis. Tarasov particularly objected to Landsbergis’s comments that the region’s "native population was forced out by new settlers" and that Lithuania seeks to promote "a western orientation" of the region. (Itar-Tass, April 14) The region’s native German population was in fact decimated and expelled by the Red Army in 1945.

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