The two sides myth is the newest form of Holocaust denial and seems to be outright endorsed by the West. Read a good article by a Jewish author on the subject recently, I'll have to see if I can find it when I have time
The r/worldnews title had "liberation" in quotes. Literally they are calling the end of the holocaust not a liberation, just outright in doing so
bruh I was going to go to latvia in 2 weeks because "they weren't going to be taken down until 15 november". Got my money back from booking and I guess, :latvia-cool:
I did submit a burning Latvian flag like 2 weeks ago btw
I meant with respect to the timing, but I think u/justjoshint got it, the timing aligning with current US foreign policy priorities
i assume he means the connection between these valorizations of explicitly fascist "anti soviet resistance heroes" and the war in ukraine which involves the same issue
doesn't help that fascist movements are large or even dominant in many countries in europe nowadays
I don't think the Baltics are even Social Democracies. They're just straight up ethno-nationalist oligarchies where a citizens dream is to move to western europe.
The term to look up is "double genocide theory". In short, the Baltic states and Western Ukraine were enthusiastic participants in the Holocaust, usually not even sending their Jews away - just shooting them into mass graves locally. After the war they had to justify this somehow, so whenever anyone talks about the Holocaust they make sure that the Soviets get mentioned too.
Which itself comes from the anti-Semitic link between communism and Jews. "We had to kill the Jewish Communists, or else they would genocide us instead!"
Edit: oh someone posted a good link about this further down in thread.
the good link you're talking about, is it this one?
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory
my understanding is that warsaw pact/iron curtain countries deeply resent their geopolitical reality, basically. western europe got the marshall plan and liberation from the nazis by non-communist forces. eastern europe got the opposite - they were simply lucky to survive and spent the next 50+ years under the austere reality of rebuilding their world after the war, with soviet aid. i would hazard a guess that life in eastern europe from the 1950s-1980s probably wasn't great, especially when your rich western neighbors flood the airwaves with propaganda encouraging you to hate your liberators. fast forward to now and the generation that grew up in war and actually was liberated has died. their children who grew up with the resentment described above are the ones in charge now.
It's propaganda and its effects. Paul Cockshott visited Poland in the '80s and he said the Polish were eating better (i.e. substantially more meat) than the average Scottish person and did better on other metrics too. Yet the Polish are more pissed about their government than the average Scot is somehow.
Edit: also probably the US, etc. helping to install fascist governments in these places for generations now.
