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Dear god. Yes, he's 95, but he was a member of the European Parliament until not so long ago, his name is still Habsburg, and there are people who'll listen to him simply because of that, the speech was made in the parliament, for god's sake, with our current vice-chancellor and former chancellor sitting there grinning and applauding, even if, according to the article, Schüssel did slightly correct this rather particular view of history afterwards. Not that I'm very inclined to believe in his sincerity after seeing those pictures.

No European country has more of a right to call itself a victim [of nazi Germany?] What about, oh, Poland, Tchechoslovakia, France, the Netherlands, Russia-- every other occupied country where people didn't turn up by the hundred thousands to cheer?


95 isn't really an excuse. Or if it is, someone should have thought to check the manuscript beforehand.



[ETA: A country, too, that has treated those who were victims as outragously as Austria did after the war.]