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Leonidas Donskis (1962—2016)

Posted on 21 September 2016 by Defending History

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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

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