Defending History
11 October 2025
Vol. XVII, No. 5879
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- The Defending History Community’s Statement on Putin’s Barbaric War on Ukraine (and the Free World)
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- Mid June 2025 Events in Vilnius
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- The Saga of Saulius Beržinis’s Documentary on the Holocaust in Sheduva: In Spite of ‘Ban’, Copies are Circulating Widely
- Some Ins and Outs of the Antisemitic-Led Party now in Lithuania’s Governing Coalition
- Arkady Kurliandchik: Antisemitism in Lithuania
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