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Today, I decided to translate and upload a documentary about the Soviet campaign against Nazi Germany, in light of recent events and the disturbing historical revisionism gaining traction across much of the world — particularly in parts of Eastern Europe.The documentary addresses a cynical theoretical framework that seeks to equate those who built Auschwitz with those who liberated it. This is the so-called “Double Genocide Theory” — a morally bankrupt equivalence between Nazi perpetrators and Soviet forces.

The Double Genocide Theory did not emerge organically. Its roots lie in the early Cold War, when the US and UK quietly employed “stay-behind networks” staffed significantly by Nazi collaborators. Neither government could openly champion these figures — not after the world had seen the camps, not after counting the dead. The solution was rehabilitation through reframing: Nazi collaborators were repackaged as Victims of Communism or Victims of Soviet Terror, transforming perpetrators into martyrs for Western consumption. However, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western governments swooped in and imposed massive privatization programs, rapid economic liberalization, and the dismantling of social safety nets. The results were swift and humiliating. The very populations the West had celebrated as newly liberated kept returning Communist parties to power through free and fair elections — in Albania, Lithuania, and across the former Soviet bloc. It turned out that people who had lost their jobs, heating, and food security were less interested in abstract freedom than in concrete survival.

Many Newly formed Countries Voted Communist

With their legitimacy on the line, these newly formed governments — generously assisted by agencies such as USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) — embarked on an ambitious project of historical reinvention. The challenge was fundamental: how do you construct national heroes for countries whose genuine resistance fighters had collaborated with, or actively served, Nazi Germany? The solution was twofold. First, rehabilitate the collaborators — reframe them as patriots who simply chose the “lesser evil” against Soviet occupation. Second, rewrite the Soviet period itself as an occupation equivalent in character and criminality to the Nazi one. This is the Double Genocide Theory in its practical application — not merely an academic debate, but a political necessity for governments that needed martyrs and needed them quickly. That the only available martyrs wore SS insignia was an inconvenience to be managed, not a moral obstacle to be reckoned with.After 35 years of this systematic revision, Holocaust revisionism has come full circle — and nowhere more brazenly than in Estonia.

Just days ago, the official Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on social media:

For nations behind the Iron Curtain, the end of WWII was not a celebration. Independent states were stripped of their sovereignty.
The Soviet Union occupied, annexed, killed, mass deported, and repressed nations for decades. pic.twitter.com/YGdTH1RFvh

— Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine (@MFAestonia) May 6, 2026

Notice what is absent. No mention of the 27 million Soviet dead who defeated Nazi Germany. No mention of who built and staffed the concentration camps on Estonian soil. No mention of the Estonian SS units whose veterans now receive state commemorations. After three and a half decades of patient historical rehabilitation, an official government ministry can now post Nazi apologetics under the banner of human rights and sovereignty — and expect to be taken seriously. The project is complete.The audacity of Estonia’s position becomes unconscionable when confronted with its own history.

Einsatzgruppen maps show Estonia as a Judenfrei Zone

Estonia was declared Judenfrei — “free of Jews” — by the Nazis in January 1942, making it one of the first territories in Europe to achieve that horrific designation. Nearly all remaining Estonian Jews were murdered in 1941, not solely by German forces, but with the eager participation of local Estonian collaborators, auxiliary police units, and the Estonian Self-Administration. The hands that are now folded piously in defense of “human rights” and “sovereignty” belong to a state whose predecessors actively assisted in the extermination of their own Jewish neighbors.This revisionism has found institutional backing at the highest levels.

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In 2017, NATO released a slick promotional film titled Forest Brothers – Fight for the Baltics, glorifying anti-Soviet guerrillas as heroic freedom fighters. The film makes no mention of the inconvenient reality that many of these “freedom fighters” were recycled Nazi collaborators — former SS members and auxiliary police who had participated directly in the Holocaust before conveniently rebranding themselves as Cold War assets.The double standard reached its most naked expression in Berlin this week. German police issued explicit bans on Soviet symbols around Soviet war memorials — USSR flags, St. George ribbons, military insignia, even Russian marches were prohibited.

Yet Ukrainian nationalist symbols, including insignia associated with Nazi collaborators such as followers of Stepan Bandera and the SS Galicia division, were openly permitted. In Berlin. At a war memorial. In 2026.They will ban the red flag that flew over the Reichstag, but wave the banners of those who helped Hitler exterminate Jews and Slavs.And while they rewrite the story, most people have already forgotten the central truth of World War II:The Soviet Union carried the overwhelming weight of the war against fascism.The Eastern Front dwarfed the Western one in every measure that mattered. The Red Army faced and destroyed roughly 80% of the Wehrmacht’s combat power. The Soviet people lost over 27 million lives — military and civilian alike. That is more than 60 times the combined military deaths of the United States and Britain. The Red Army stopped the Nazis at Moscow and Stalingrad, broke their back at Kursk, liberated Auschwitz, and planted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin.Without the Eastern Front, there would have been no D-Day. Without the Soviet sacrifice, there would have been no victory in the West at all.This is not nostalgia. This is not propaganda. This is a refusal to allow the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators — those who inherited the spoils of Judenfrei policies — to spit on the graves of the men and women who actually saved Europe.Watch the documentary. Remember what real liberation looked like.And ask yourself why some people are so desperate to make you forget.

Once again, Watch the video which premieres at 10:00 AM Eastern and 4:00 pm Zagreb Time.

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