Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/germany@feddit.org/t/1945027

A small town in eastern Germany banned the installation of new Holocaust memorial plaques that mark the last known residence or workplace of Jews and other victims of the genocide.

The motion was proposed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)...

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[+] [S] -16 points 1 week ago (1 child)

The 1932–33 famine was not a genocide by any stretch of the imagination

Given that most serious genocide scholars regard the Holodomor as a genocide, you're simply wrong.

double genocide

The double genocide article you posted links to the Holomor denial article, which describes your behaviour:

'Holodomor denial is easily distinguished from serious scholarship, and "generally consists of especially vitriolic anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian tirades," often accompanied by accusations of foreign influence, Nazi sympathies, or ulterior motives.'

Blocked. Genocide denial crosses the line.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    Yes, many “serious” scholars in the imperial core regard it as a genocide, but outside of that minority, scholars around the world do not.

    Welcome to Lemmy, your first exposure to voices outside of the capitalist/imperialist echo chamber that most of us had ever been exposed to.

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