red-brown politics in the baltics

Lithuanian lawmaker who blamed Jews for Holocaust quits parliament’s memorial commission

Valdas Rakutis cited his desire to “reduce tensions between home and abroad” when he announced his resignation on Saturday.

“There was no shortage of Holocaust perpetrators among the Jews themselves,” said Valdas Rakutis, prompting a rare rebuke from the U.S. embassy.

Zuroff has highlighted the glorification of Nazi collaborators in East European societies with rife anti-Russian sentiment.

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