The 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approaches amid a disturbing new cover-up of Holocaust history. Across Eastern Europe, the notion of a “Double Genocide” – the idea that there were two equal holocausts, Soviet and Nazi – has been pushed by governments and nationalist elites in the media and arts.
The concept suggests that Jews were communists, and participated in the communist crimes against their countries – which must equally count as “genocide”.
Therefore, the Holocaust should be reconceived as one of two equal catastrophes, one of them allegedly involving major Jewish culpability.