Among the Lithuanian issues of concern in the UK and Ireland:

 

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♦ State-sponsored campaigns to delete the Holocaust as category from European history, and replace with ‘Double Genocide’, locally and in the EuroParliament.

♦   Laws to criminalize the opinion that Nazi and Soviet crimes are unequal (an issue of democracy, rather than just the in-itself-serious issue of manipulating history for nationalist narrative).

♦  State-sponsored efforts to glorify Nazi collaborators, including actual participants in Holocaust murders in the Baltics, often simultaneously with Holocaust commemoration.

♦   Prosecutors’ abuse of power to defame Holocaust Survivors with ‘war crimes investigations’ which are left with neither charges nor closure years later.

♦   Rampant public antisemitism in the media and sometimes in state-sponsored institutions, often unchallenged by senior officials.

♦   A court’s legalization of public swastikas, unchallenged by the nation’s leaders.

♦   Failure to preserve the one anti-Nazi Jewish partisan fort that survives.

♦   Cover-up and diversion on these and other issues via a sophisticated and relentless campaign of PR, grants, largess, conferences, colloquiums, programs, junkets, and hospitality-and-honors, often focusing on Jewish, Judaic and Yiddish studies and culture, and sometimes specifically on the Holocaust and antisemitism in the Baltic region.

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