The term “genocide of the Soviet people” has increasingly been used in Russia in recent years. Authorities have also proposed repurposing a closed museum dedicated to the Soviet-era Gulag system into one focused on victims of Nazi crimes. Moscow has pushed back against what it describes as attempts to downplay the suffering of Soviet citizens during the war and the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany. Historians and courts widely agree that the German occupation of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944 involved extensive war crimes and crimes against humanity. The nearly 900-day siege of Leningrad – now...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
