So the Russians made it up, I presume is the implication here?
I mean not without help from Americans. Propaganda didn't stop right after the war. In fact, the government pretty much kept on making it. The Holocaust was a nice story to tell to justify what had been done to Germany, and jews were only too happy to tell it. The USSR had paid a far higher price for the war than the US did and was thus that much more in need of propaganda. I mean who was there really to speak against it? US veterans hated Hitler before the Holocaust myth because they were supposed to. Just like they hated the Japanese and later Koreans and Vietnamese. And much later Afghanis and Iraqis. Absent any sympathy for jews, which most Americans did not have, Hitler was portrayed as a dictator-tyrant. Since Americans loved freedom.
As has been pointed out, history is written by the victors. That the Holocaust overshadows all the other atrocities of a World War should tell you who the real victors were.
Another thing to remember is people didn't have as free access to information before the Internet. In fact, during WW2 and immediately thereafter all media was censored by the US government. So not only would you be discredited if you told a different story, but the government might come after you, too. They had a lot to hide; not just the facts around the camps.
Maybe, maybe not... Who knows?
That being said, soviets weren't exactly famous for their truthful statements, quite the opposite actually
Well my thinking was that because the Bolshevik/commie leadership was mostly Jews, then…
It's complicated... But yeah the jewish component is a big deal in the overall story
There are different periods when it comes to the soviet union, stalin went after the jews for instance, big time, that's the great purge episode, when he realized they were turning on him/ditching the soviet union to join the "new israel eldorado", the zionist project
But back to the end of WWII, everybody agreed the losers (nazis) had to be nailed for good and forever, so they would never, ever, recover. So they charged the mule, naturally
I'm reading this right now http://radiochristianity.com/holocaust-deprogramming-course/ it's a looooong ass article with fucktons of references, and it really starts to get into the facts, after the series of quotes at the beginning
Soviet Russia was most honest government in world. If you disagree you can go straight to gulag.
Yes, just as they hid the Katyn Forest massacre of the Polish officer corps. This was exposed by the Germans, and widely disbelieved internationally.
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