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The Defending History Community Mourns our Colleague

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LEONIDAS DONSKIS

13 August 1962 — 21 September 2016

HIS WORK IN DEFENDING HISTORY INCLUDES ESSAYS ON:

♦ Inflation of the word “genocide” and criminalization of debate

♦ The campaign against Holocaust survivors who joined the anti-Nazi Soviet partisans and its implications

♦ Response to proposals to “reevaluate” the Hitlerist LAF and Provisional Government collaborators of 1941

♦ Reponse to the newest incarnations of Holocaust Denial

♦ Response to the reburial with full honors of 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister; Public letter on effects of the reburial and the participation of Vytautas Magnus University

♦ Reply to domestic critics of European Parliament’s criticism of homophobic legislation

See also his famous essay on Antisemitism in Lithuania

DEFENDING HISTORY COVERAGE OF PROFESSOR DONSKIS INCLUDES

♦ Election to the European Parliament

♦ Aftermath of his dramatic statements about the 2012 Brazaitis reburial; more coverage

♦  Standing up for the European Parliament’s criticism of his country’s policies on LGBT rights

♦ Nida Vasiliauskaitė on Donskis’ reply to Girnius over attempts to rehabilitate the 1941 LAF and the Provisional Government

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PHOTOS FROM DEFENDING HISTORY’S 15 MAY 2009 EVENING FOR PROF. DONSKIS AT BASANAVIČIAUS 17-10 IN VILNIUS.  A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION AND PHOTO