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In “Shameful” Decision Lithuanian Parliament Appoints Glorifier of Holocaust Collaborators as Director of State’s “Genocide Center”

Posted on 22 April 2021 by Defending History

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Secret ballot: 76 for, 34 against,8 abstentions, 2 spoiled ballots

Local reports (generally lacking any inkling of the international uproar over adulation of Holocaust perpetrators): 15 min.lt; alfa.lt; alkas.lt;  delfi.lt; lrt.lt; lzb.lt; respublika.lt

Defending History broke news of the nomination on 14 April

“No, Sir. This is No Photoshop”

Algemeiner Journal is first foreign publication to cover the affair in reports of 15 April and of 22 April

 see also: Arutz Sheva

Earlier: On the Bubnys nomination.  In the Algemeiner Journal. On Dr. Bubnys’s record. The state-sponsored Genocide Center. On glorifying collaborators.

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