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Marjanovic, Teodor
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Europe's energy dependency
Teodor Marjanovic considers the complaints from Eastern Europeans about their dependency on Russian energy to be less than productive. "The Americans could also moan about their dependency on foreign raw materials. They, too, would prefer to be independent of the Arabs or of populists like the Venezuelan Hugo Chavez. It is the irony of the modern age that the west has no oil - as opposed to what we consider to be the non-democratic part of the world. And that is really damned unfair. ... But instead of constantly seeking alternative sources of energy, it would make more sense to pressure the oil producing countries to be more trustworthy and reliable."
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Günter Grass was in the Waffen-SS
"Even if he wasn't an evil person, Günter Grass has shown that he was a weakling," writes Teodor Marjanovic commenting on Grass's surprising confession. "Grass was a moral authority in these unsettled times. He was a person whose great achievement it was to make it possible for Germans to examine their Nazi past without grimacing or hypocrisy. And now he has confessed that for most of his life he has remained silent about what he himself did during the war. Some may say, 'So what?'. Even Pope Benedict XVI was a member of the Hitler Youth and was drafted into the Wehrmacht. But the Pope deserted the army and didn't conceal his past. The Grass affair resembles the Kurt Waldheim scandal. The former UN Secretary General remained silent about the fact that during the war he was in command of units that committed atrocities in western Bosnia. Although Grass's assurance that 'he didn't shoot even once' is believable, his confession still has a nasty taste to it. It has come unacceptably late."
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