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These are the crimes all countries must stop together and bring [Vladimir] Putin and \u0141uka\u0161enka to account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 13, Pozirk.&nbsp;On Poland\u2019s Day of Remembrance of Victims of Katyn Massacre, a leading Belarusian opposition diplomat has lashed out at the Russian government, accusing it of pursuing policies chillingly reminiscent of Josef Stalin\u2019s terror with regard to neighbors. Valer Kavale\u016dski, the opposition foreign policy chief, notes that ethnic Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians and Jews were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":57831,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-79593","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On Katyn massacre remembrance day, Belarusian politician draws parallels between Putin and Stalin | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 13, Pozirk.&nbsp;On Poland\u2019s Day of Remembrance of Victims of Katyn Massacre, a leading Belarusian opposition diplomat has lashed out at the Russian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/79593\/\" 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