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4 February 2023
Vol. XIV, No. 4899
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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

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Cover-up via double games

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Remembering the rescuers

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Studying the Holocaust

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