Last week, several conservative Euro-MPs from the former communist bloc - led by former Lithuanian President VytautasLandsbergis and Hungarian Joszef Szajer - asked for communist symbols to be treated in the same way as Nazi ones.
In sharp contrast, Lithuanian President VytautasLandsbergis used his own appearance in Washington yesterday to argue that far from being a catalyst for structural change in the Soviet Union Western aid actually helps the Kremlin to stave off such change.