President of the Czech Republic: Russians living in the West should be "under surveillance"

In an interview with Radio Liberty, Czech President Petr Pavel said that security services should keep an eye on Russians living in the West. In his opinion, this is the "price of Russia's war" against Ukraine.

"All Russians living in Western countries should be more under surveillance than in the past. They are citizens of a country that is waging an aggressive war. I feel sorry for these people, but on the other hand, if you look at the past, when the Second World War started, all Japanese living in the United States were under strict surveillance. This is just the price of war," the Czech president said.

Pavel noted that he was referring to surveillance by the special services.

Radio Liberty notes that during the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established internment camps where people of Japanese descent were imprisoned. This step affected about 120,000 people, most of whom were American citizens.

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