Can history be “fixed” by the power of the state?
Will Western Allies Speak Up as Ultranationalists Try to Make “Double Genocide” into Law in a NATO/EU Country?
Case in Constitutional Court in Vilnius follows 2010 law that effectively criminalizes opinion that there was one Holocaust in Lithuania
BACKGROUND ON DOUBLE GENOCIDE:
Shimon Alperovich, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Yitzhak Arad, Evaldas Balciunas, Yehuda Bauer, Danny Ben-Moshe, Milan Chersonski, Leonidas Donskis, Pinchos Fridberg, Dovid Katz, Rachel Kostanian, Denis MacShane, John Mann, Geoff Vasil (Vasiliauskas), Olga Zabludoff, Efraim Zuroff
FILMS:
Richard Bloom’s Defending Holocaust History; Danny Ben-Moshe’s Rewriting History; Gerit Ziegler’s When Double Genocide Means Single Genocide
BATTLE OF EUROPEAN DECLARATIONS:
Seventy Years Declaration (2012) is a reply to the Prague Declaration (2008); Statement of the World Union of Progressive Judaism (2013); History of SYD
- Could it be in 2014? Marches approved by authorities, in Kaunas in February and Vilnius in March, featured a banner glorifying the Nazi puppet prime minister of 1941 who signed papers sending the Jewish citizens of his city (Kaunas) to a death camp and a ghetto. In 2012 he was reburied with full honors by the state.
RELATED:
Double Genocide section; Blaming the Victims; Glorification of Collaborators; 2012 reburial of 1941 Nazi puppet prime minister; Sample of the antisemitic essence of Double Genocide (by current official at the Economy Ministry)
DOUBLE GENOCIDE IN THE ANTISEMITIC IMAGINATION:
- “Thank you for our victory,” says the swarmy Jew to the Soviet soldier as the city burns and a raped blonde lies dead. Courtesy of “Zeppelinus” who allegedly still works in the Economy Ministry.
DOUBLE GENOCIDE TOURISM:
Survey; Genocide Center; Genocide Museum; Gruto Parkas; Tolerance Center; Street names and university shrines for Nazi collaborators;
Welcome to Defending History! “Double Genocide” Stops Right Here
Beware the “Prague Declaration” and “Red-Brown Commissions”; Support for the Seventy Years Declaration from the World Union for Progressive Judaism helps set the record straight…
BATTLE FOR HISTORY & TOLERANCE HEATING UP:
CROATIA, ESTONIA, HUNGARY, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, UKRAINE
ECHOES IN AMERICA, BRITAIN, CANADA, ISRAEL, SOUTH AFRICA, AND OTHER COUNTRIES
DEFENDING HISTORY HONORS CITIZENS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS WHO STAND UP AGAINST DISTORTION AND RACISM
ALSO IN THE NEWS: CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF BRADAUSKAS AND “ZEPPELINUS”?