DISINFO: The world has forgotten about the Holocaust
SUMMARY
Unfortunately, today, the world has forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust. In Ukraine, Nazi ideas are being propagated, while the Baltic states glorify the accomplices of Nazis and desecrate historical remembrance. There is a growing wave of anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative attempting to link the Baltic countries, Ukraine and the EU with Nazism, Fascism and anti-Semitism.
To mobilise domestic Russian audiences, the pro-Kremlin media repeatedly inovokes WW2 imagery and attempts to portray the West as anti-Semitic and neo-fascist. See our recent article Anti-Semitism and pro-Kremlin disinformation.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 took place on January 27th. Far from being forgotten, survivors and world leaders marked Holocaust Memorial Day with remembrance services and events as can be seen here.
The disinformation claim that Ukraine is a Nazi state is a cornerstone of Kremlin propaganda since 2014, see here, and has already been broadly addressed by EUvsDisinfo.
Learn more about the reasons behind Kremlin's obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state in the EUvsDisinfo analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
Read more “Nazi”-related disinformation cases here as well as similar cases such as Modern Lithuanian identity and history are based on anti-Semitism, anti-Sovietism and Russophobia; Poland, Baltic states and Ukraine are Russophobic and anti-Semitic;