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Lithuanians are starting to face the Holocaust more openly, which facilitates friendlier relations with Israel, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Monday after an event honouring Jewish victims World War Two massacre in Molėtai.
Memorial march in Molėtai
Memorial march in Molėtai
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"Our official relations with Israel have improved considerably, they are now warm after all the visits and our ability to look at ourselves with more open eyes is very important, another very important thing is that we are not afraid of painful moments in our history," Grybauskaitė told journalists.

"They are very painful but it's our his

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