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Defending History

9 June 2023
Vol. XIV, No. 5024
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What is Double Genocide?

Holocaust Obfuscation

The Red-Brown Commission

Its recent “adventures”

The Prague Declaration (2008)

What’s wrong?

Response: Seventy Years Declaration (2012)

The memorable “moustache” launch

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Blaming the Victims

Fightback

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Glorifying Nazi perpetrators

Memorials for perpetrators and collaborators

A disturbing pattern

Nazi war criminals and justice

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Sights to see. . .

“Museum of Genocide Victims”

Fate of the “Jewish fort in the forest”

Fate of the gravestones (matséyves) of Vilna’s old Zarétshe (Užupis) Jewish cemetery

The ideal shtetl reconstructed?

Gruto Parkas

Curious choices for street names and university lecture halls

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Curtailing of Democracy

2 years in jail for disagreeing with Double Genocide

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Antisemitism and Bias

Swastikas legalized

UN Human Rights Committee takes note

Human Rights…

LGBT Rights

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Cover-up via double games

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Applauding citizens who speak up

Remembering the rescuers

Proposing constructive solutions

Studying the Holocaust

Studying the living culture of the victims and survivors

Studying and preserving cemeteries and other relics

Cultural and linguistic dialectology of the Litvak lands

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