Posted on 08/15/2008 4:18:51 PM PDT by mnehring
Abstract: Holocaust denial has appeared in Russia only recently and has attracted almost no attention in the academic sphere, and relatively little from monitoring organizations. The research for this article - examining the place of Holocaust denial in contemporary Russia - was conducted over three months in Russia and on the Internet. The results indicate that the phenomenon remains of marginal significance and that the majority of material is of western origin. While there are several factors that make the development of Holocaust denial probable - the comparatively high level of antisemitism in Russia, post-Soviet suspicion of historiography and lack of education about the Holocaust - the Soviet war experience and associated anti-Nazi feeling arguably act as restraints on those who would propagate it. Rock concludes that Holocaust-denial material is of less importance than other antisemitic revisions of Russian history that have entered the mainstream of contemporary Russian society.
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This stuff again...
The Holocaust did happen...
Our own US troops rescued thousands of survivors from the conscentration camps...
Too many witnesses ...
No one every accused the Ruskies of being smart.
So did the moon landings, but there are still people who deny that too. Not to equate the two, but denial in the face of obvious proof is hard to understand. Seems these folks are either stupid or have an agenda.
Even during Stalin’s last days,and certainly through Gorbachev, the one thing they always pointed to with pride was the liberation of the death camps.If these new attitudes represent modern Russian thought the world is in for a very bad time.
What Russia’s leaders do and the turn they are taking spits on the spirit of all of the old Russian soldiers who fought side by side our soldiers to stop Hitler. The Russian people are so much greater than the joke of their leadership and those trying to turn their country into another radical, anti-Jewish state. IMHO, they are just kissing Iran’s a** for money.
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