by Grant Gochin, January 5, 2026

History is not preserved by monuments or institutions. It is preserved by accuracy, accountability, and the willingness to confront what is difficult. Nowhere is that obligation more binding than in nations whose soil carries the memory of mass murder. When a state chooses to defend dishonest institutional narratives instead of historical truth, the cost becomes permanent: the leadership that made those choices becomes inseparable from the legacy of distortion.

Lithuania refuses to confront that legacy.

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania

The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania (LGGRTC) is a state institution charged with researching and memorializing the crimes of totalitarian regimes. Over the past decades, its conduct has drawn sustained criticism for minimizing Lithuanian participation in the Holocaust while promoting dishonest national narratives.

International Jewish organizations and independent observers have warned that the Centre’s activities approach Holocaust distortion and contradict established historical scholarship. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lithuanias-genocide-studies-center-accused-of-holocaust-denial/

This approach is rooted in what is known as the Genocide Equalization Doctrine–the official framing of Nazi and Soviet crimes as equivalent, which serves to relativize Lithuanian collaboration in the Holocaust and shift focus to Soviet-era suffering. For a detailed examination of how this doctrine dilutes historical accountability and enables contemporary propaganda narratives, see: https://grantgochin.substack.com/p/the-dilution-of-death-how-genocide

Teresė Birutė Burauskaitė and My Record of Legal Challenge

Under the directorship of Teresė Birutė Burauskaitė, the LGGRTC issued findings on Jonas Noreika that I formally challenged through a sustained legal campaign.

I have pursued accountability from Lithuanian authorities for nearly two decades. After exhaustive efforts through fact, research and irrefutable proof absolutely failed to move those responsible for reporting the official version of history, I sought a legal pathway, initiating formal legal actions with attorneys in 2015. This campaign was conducted by me, Grant Gochin, without institutional sponsorship, organizational backing or external funding. The research, expert consultation, archival analysis, filings, appeals and litigation were executed and financed personally after academic institutions, advocacy organizations and oversight bodies declined to act on the evidence presented.

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