I’ve seen too much of this. No, the nazis and the Soviets were not equivalent.

Do. Better.

    • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      It’s technically not holocaust denial, they got their ethnic cleansing death toll pretty reasonable. Double genocide works by dragging down the Holocaust and dragging up the USSR’s deaths, they’re only doing the latter. Obviously none of us agree with their take on the USSR’s situatuon but I wanna give them a minute to say their piece so we can talk about it

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        “Holocaust trivialization” is a term I learned today after researching what the double genocide theory is, that I think applies here.

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        Genocide and ethnic cleansing are not interchangeable. Genocide is destruction of a group of people, ethnic cleansing is physical expulsion or exclusion of a group of people from an area.

        Trying to downplay genocide as ethnic cleansing is arguably a type of Holocaust denial, but most people don’t understand the nuances.