Lester Golden
1 min readJan 30, 2024

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83% of Greek Jews (59000) died in the Shoah, less than in Poland, but a more than the Netherlands (75%). Citing Greeks who helped Jews in this context is a diversionary distraction. Greece was firmly in the eastern European collaborationist camp compared to Italy, Finland and Denmark, where the survival-death rates were the reverse of Greece's.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/greeks-who-survived-holocaust-as-children-speak-out-after-decades-of-silence/

Once again, you write like David Irving, before assembling evidence. It's double standards anti-semitism that drives this process.

73% of Ukrainians in 2019 voted for a Jewish candidate for president. If you'd told my Ukrainian Jewish grandparents that in the not too distant future:

* The Berlin wall would be a memory,

* There would be a right wing Republican Russian agent in the White House in thrall to a neo-Stalinist kleptocratic Russian dictator while the American left supported the FBI and CIA investigating him.

* And that that Jewish president of Ukraine was leading an independent Ukraine in a war of independence against an neo-imperial genocidal Russia....https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/

My grandparents would have said, "vat are ya, meshuggeneh?".

I like history because it throws us scenarios no novelist could ever invent.

Putin's puppet Dima Medvedev just said "the Baltics are ours." But with NATO now a 3 hour drive from St Petersburg, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius are a lot less worried.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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