{"id":58533,"date":"2025-01-27T20:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58533"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:30:24","slug":"beyond-propaganda-the-ussr-and-its-grave-responsibility-in-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/27\/beyond-propaganda-the-ussr-and-its-grave-responsibility-in-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond propaganda: the USSR and its grave responsibility in the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 27, 1945, 80 years ago, the Red Army arrived at Auschwitz, the largest of Nazi Germany's extermination camps.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/27\/the-complicity-of-the-ussr-in-the-extermination-of-jews-by-the-nazis-and-in-its-concealment\/\">The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/29\/the-mass-deportation-of-polish-jews-to-siberia-an-almost-forgotten-communist-crime\/\">The mass deportation of Polish Jews to Siberia: an almost forgotten communist crime<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>For years, it has been common to speak of \"liberation\" to refer to this fact. Many communist propagandists have used it to <strong>whitewash the role of the USSR in the Second World War and, particularly, in the Holocaust.<\/strong> Today's communists, and at the time the Stalin dictatorship, also appeal to the extremely high number of Soviet casualties in both that war and the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/03\/united-by-hatred-of-democracy-a-revealing-telegram-about-the-nazi-soviet-pact-of-1939\/\">World War II began with an alliance between Nazi Germany and the USSR<\/a> to jointly invade Poland. Under this pact, <strong>the USSR invaded Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and part of Romania<\/strong>, committing mass deportations and all kinds of atrocities in the invaded countries. <strong>Stalin only stood up to Hitler when Germany finally invaded the USSR<\/strong> in June 1941. Until then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/02\/24\/this-is-how-the-communist-party-of-spain-justified-the-nazi-soviet-invasion-of-poland\/\">the communist parties, following orders from Moscow, justified the German-Soviet invasion of Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitler's dictatorship was a criminal and genocidal regime<\/strong>, and only fanatics can deny this fact, which is proven by the horrors of the Holocaust and the countless crimes committed by the Germans in the countries they invaded. <strong>Stalin's dictatorship was also a criminal and genocidal regime<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/05\/stalin-data-and-numbers-of-the-crimes-of-the-bloody-communist-dictator-and-genocidal\/\">which caused millions of deaths.<\/a> It was his alliance with Hitler that unleashed the worst war humanity has ever suffered, and <strong>any attempt to whitewash that regime is as infamous as attempts to whitewash Nazism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it must be remembered that <strong>the Auschwitz extermination camp began to be built in June 1940, when Germany and the USSR were still allies<\/strong> and while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/27\/the-complicity-of-the-ussr-in-the-extermination-of-jews-by-the-nazis-and-in-its-concealment\/\">Stalin was delivering colossal quantities of grain, oil, iron ore and other raw materials to the Third Reich<\/a>, Soviet aid that served not only to contribute to its war machine, but also to grease the criminal organization that perpetrated the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have already written several articles on these issues in recent years.<\/strong> I list them below for anyone who wants to learn more about this topic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/27\/the-complicity-of-the-ussr-in-the-extermination-of-jews-by-the-nazis-and-in-its-concealment\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment<\/a>. On the role of the USSR not only in the Holocaust, but also in covering up the genocide suffered by the Jews during the Nuremberg Trials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/02\/01\/majdanek-the-german-concentration-camp-reused-by-the-ussr-against-anti-nazi-poles\/\">Majdanek: the German concentration camp reused by the USSR against anti-Nazi Poles<\/a>. Stalin used this Nazi extermination camp to imprison Poles who had fought against the Germans. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/29\/the-mass-deportation-of-polish-jews-to-siberia-an-almost-forgotten-communist-crime\/\">The mass deportation of Polish Jews to Siberia: an almost forgotten communist crime<\/a>. A crime against humanity that some today try to disguise as an act of \"salvation.\"<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/03\/united-by-hatred-of-democracy-a-revealing-telegram-about-the-nazi-soviet-pact-of-1939\/\">United by hatred of democracy: a revealing telegram about the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939<\/a>. On the pact between Germany and the USSR signed on August 23, 1939, which led, a few days later, to the outbreak of the Second World War.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/09\/01\/the-nazi-soviet-joint-parade-of-1939-in-poland-that-some-deny-in-video\/\">The Nazi-Soviet joint parade of 1939 in Poland that some deny, in video<\/a>. An event that took place in the Polish town of Brze\u015b\u0107 Litewski (today Brest-Litovsk, in Belarus).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/08\/28\/the-pogrom-of-ludmilowka-a-silenced-killing-of-jews-at-the-hands-of-communists\/\">The Pogrom of Ludmi\u0142\u00f3wka: a silenced killing of Jews at the hands of communists<\/a>. The man responsible for this anti-Semitic massacre, the communist Grzegorz Korczy\u0144ski, ended up becoming deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security in the communist dictatorship imposed by Stalin in Poland.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/02\/24\/this-is-how-the-communist-party-of-spain-justified-the-nazi-soviet-invasion-of-poland\/\">This is how the Communist Party of Spain justified the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland<\/a>. An example of how the alliance between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 was reflected in the propaganda of the communist parties that were under the orders of Moscow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Colorized photo by Mirek Szponar. German and Soviet soldiers at the joint German-Soviet parade in Brze\u015b\u0107 Litewski to celebrate their victory over the Poles in September 1939.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 27, 1945, 80 years ago, the Red Army arrived at Auschwitz, the largest of Nazi Germany&#8217;s extermination camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10375],"tags":[1623,11829,2489,10444,10929,11405,13554,10872,419,11950,10452],"class_list":["post-58533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-history","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-antisemitism","tag-auschwitz","tag-communism","tag-germany","tag-holocaust","tag-majdanek","tag-national-socialism","tag-stalin","tag-third-reich","tag-ussr"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:40:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}