History falsified as Europe says Nazis and communists are the same
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By Phil Katz

When I wrote my book, "Freedom From Tyranny", the "Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism"-which in terms of falsifying history ranks up there with the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"-was still taking shape.

The Prague Declaration was initiated by former Czech president Vaclav Havel in 2008 but has changed its title a bewildering number of times. It is the parent of "Black Ribbon Day" and the "European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism," adopted by the European Union in October 2011. And it is the core text behind a motion entitled "Importance of European remembrance," adopted by the EU Parliament on Sept. 19, by 535 votes against 66, with 52 abstentions.

What is the Prague Declaration you might ask? It is the centerpiece of a movement, started in 2008 in eastern Europe, based on notions of a "red/brown equivalence," or horseshoe political theory. Extreme right and extreme left somehow meet and fuse, Nazis and communists become interchangeable. Pro-Hitler forces are rehabilitated. And the Holocaust becomes just one of many, no more or less important than say the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, which it is claimed was manufactured by communists.

The great Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff, of the Wiesenthal Centre, describes it as: "The main manifesto of the false equivalency movement." And if anyone is qualified to know, it's him.

In the declaration and all its iterations, communists and Nazis are made to appear indistinguishable, lumped together as "extremist ideologies."

It has been sponsored by the EU, notably during recent Czech and Polish presidencies, and...

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