If you have been beaten up by someone for nearly fifty years, does that ‘cloud your judgment’ about the beater?

But however clear-eyed Lithuania’s decison-makers claim to be about today’s Russia, many seem myopic about their own country’s past. Anger over 48 years of Soviet occupation clouds their judgment about the Communists’ recent role.

Still, the scale of the monstrosities which went on under the Nazis in Lithuania and elsewhere in Europe – and the complicity of local people in complying with Nazi plans – is indeed a question.

The 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact next year should give these Twin Vampire issues a much-needed airing.