" Nazi hunter ": the Baltic States and Ukraine more other rewrite history

The head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, main "Nazi hunter" doctor Efraim Zuroff believes that the process of rewriting the history of the Second world war and the genocide of European Jewry With the filing of the country's most actively goes in the post-Soviet Baltic republics and Ukraine.
in day of memory of the 6 million Jews who were killed in 1930-40's, head of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center says about gaining power in Eastern Europe tendency to downplay the scale of the Holocaust, to rehabilitate local collaborators and to impose on the world the theory of "double genocide" is identical to the gravity of the crimes committed by the Nazi and Communist regimes." the Baltic States, Ukraine and then Hungary - State, where the problem was most acute, as It encouraged the government. This is done by the will of the authorities and Their money, "said Zuroff, RIA" Novosti ". As an example, He cited the Museum of genocide victims in Vilnius, Lithuania, where, According to Zuroff, 95% of the exhibition is devoted to the "Communist crimes" and another year and a half ago, " not a word was said about the true genocide ". He says that in a similar Latvian Museum of fifty percent of the exhibition devoted to the period of the Nazi occupation, talks about the local population who saved Jews." If the righteous there was so much, how come 95, 6% of Latvian Jews were killed?" - asked Zuroff." They do everything they can to distance themselves from these crimes. To say that the Holocaust is not unique, in the end, that is to Say, guilty of all. And if all are guilty, no one is to blame, " said He. Attempts to rewrite the history acquired in the last few years, " systematic ", says Zuroff. He listed the underlying causes, which, in his vision, guided in the Eastern European countries who do not wish the world knew who in reality were the ones They erected to the rank of " freedom fighters "." These post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe need heroes. This is, truly, the young country. Who are Their heroes? Their heroes, those Who fought against communism. They are called freedom fighters. But what If these fighters forcibly deprived of life of the Jews, innocent Jews, their Jewish fellow citizens. This deprives Them of the heroic aura. For this reason It is trying to shut up", He added." we need to understand that cooperation With the Nazis in Eastern Europe was different, much worse than anywhere else. Only in Eastern Europe collaboration included systematic participation in mass murder. In these countries prefer that the world did not know about It. If the country faces a choice - to look like a nation of executioners and victims, it is Clear that she would prefer. Victims get sympathy and restitution, " said Zuroff. For the same purpose, in his vision, promoted the theory of "double genocide" - is embedded in the mass consciousness thesis about the fact that the Holocaust is not unique and lawlessness of the Communist regimes as horror as those committed by the Nazis." And This is not the case. The iniquity of communism is not a genocide. The Holocaust is the result of a fanatical ideology, the essence of which is to completely erase From the face of the earth a people. This is not communism, " He said. The Simon Wiesenthal center, founded in 1977, is engaged in the search for Nazi war bandits, fight against neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism, the history of the genocide of European Jews. He is accredited as a non-governmental organization at the United Nations and UNESCO.


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