The restitution of works of art purloined in World War 2 is still a sensitive issue.  The recovery of cultural heritage can be so much of a taboo to the extent that some precious objects might be held to have been destroyed.

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Struggling for the return of pictures now at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum, Poland had hopes that when Russian Premier Vladimir Putin arrived in Gdansk for the observations of the 70^th anniversary of the outbreak of WW2 on September 1^st, his visit would also herald the return of what antiquarians have called the last prisoners of war.