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2023-07-12 19:17:36 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E70CFBA8E14DE3870784DBEFE7B98B749B6EF796CAF63FDFCC6EE3A2CFD068BA
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Claims that former Communist States were equally genocidal as Nazi Germany are a form of holocaust denial: https://www.holocaustchild.org/2012/01/the-prague-declaration-holocaust-obfuscation-and-antisemitism/ https://jacobin.com/2023/01/soviet-union-memorials-nazi-germany-holocaust-history-revisionism This rhetoric has been used by ultranationalists in the former USSR & eastern Bloc to deny, obfuscate & glorify Nazi pogroms against Jewish people: https://www.thejc.com/comment/analysis/double-genocide-has-become-the-deadliest-form-of-denial-1.64725 https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-helps-dedicate-memorial-to-ukrainian-group-that-collaborated-with-nazis/
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