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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, of course, is neither Reuters nor AFP, but it is a large and solid agency whose articles are reprinted by dozens and hundreds of newsletters and portals around the world. Many people of Jewish descent believe it to be an information agency of an Anglo-Saxon nature, which must be dominated by Western criteria for the search for truth and fair and objective methods of journalism.
This is a western agency. It is unfortunate that, after many objective articles have been published, this time his objectivity has been eroded, and there has been an article published by Mr. Canaan Liphshiz that quotes three-quarters of the material from witnesses who accused Daumant and perhaps a little more than a quarter of those who opposed and spoke. Daumantas did not participate in the terrible Lietūkis garage massacre, “E. Zingeris told Delfi.
According to the MP, such an accusation against the Lithuanian partisan is high and very serious.
“The garage pogrom is recognized as the first terrible deal with completely innocent people, citizens, Jews in the ancient temporary capital Kaunas. It is widely known to the world, and participation in this innocent beast of innocent people is a terrible shadow. Therefore, it is surprising how such an agency publishes such a terrible accusation: in its overall image, it is surpassed by those witnesses who are respectable, survived ghettos and camps, but the evolution of their quote from which they took the material it is highly questionable. “All historians I know from various backgrounds have never attributed Daumant to a crime as horrible and horrible as participating in the massacre,” said E. Zinger.
The deputy is convinced that the damage caused by the dissemination of such information is enormous.
“In the past few weeks, I have read the same information, with different interpretations, such as The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, in a large number of different publications around the world. (…) Knowing that we did in 1949. We equated the partisan declaration, which clearly establishes the attitude towards Nazi and Soviet criminals, with the document of our level of Declaration of Independence, in this context it is a hard blow to the prestige of the Republic of Lithuania. with the terrible massacres of Lithuanian citizens, “said E. Zingeris.
On the other hand, the parliamentarian emphasized that “there is a lot to fix in Lithuania, because there are monuments to real murderers.”
“For example, Mr. Krištaponis, Mrs. Barzda, and finally, after many letters to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, which I wrote myself, those monuments of people who drew a terrible stain should not be in Lithuania, and they should not give our opponents a chance to blacken Lithuania. ” Every day, the presence of these monuments in Lithuania is an opportunity for someone to weaken our ties with our valued Western allies. “I think we should give up on these monuments and not allow the leaders of our true guerrilla movement, who have nothing to do with the Nazi assassins, to be blackmailed,” said Zinger.
He provided information on the studies already carried out.
His appeal to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is only described in more detail and in a reasoned way.
“2020 June 29 The Jewish Telegraphic Agency published fashionable information that unfortunately did not meet the most basic standards of objective journalism. This information has been widely cited in many international publications, including The Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post. The attack on Juozas Lukšas-Daumantas was particularly enthusiastic about the Russian official press, which carried out the latest disinformation campaign aimed at supporting Moscow’s efforts to justify the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states and undermine Stalin’s atrocities, for example Alexei Ilijaševičius in his article “Lithuania responded to Putin’s article glorifying Hitler’s favorite” once again attacks J. Lukšas-Daumantas, “the address reads.
Zinger noted that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had publicly stated that “many witnesses” had seen Lukša-Daumanta participate in the infamous massacre of Jews in 1941. June 27 At the Kaunas “Lietūkis” garage. Most of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency publication claims that one of the most famous Lithuanian fighters against the Soviet regime, J. Lukša-Daumantas, was a Jewish exterminator. Only a small part of the article is about defamation of dissenting opinions about this person.
“Since the attack on one of the most prominent participants in the post-war anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania was so widespread with the authors’ comments that they know next to nothing about the post-war resistance movement, it is necessary to explain this moment in the history”. According to historical facts, during the German occupation, Lithuania lost more than 90 percent. Jewish citizens were killed by Nazis and local collaborators. Therefore, it is very important to determine if J. Lukša-Daumantas participated in these unprecedented massacres, “said the MP.
Attention is drawn to the fact that J. Lukša-Daumantas was born in 1921. During the years of German occupation, members of his community risked their lives to hide the escaped Soviet prisoner of war, Vasily.
“There is no evidence that these people, along with J. Lukša-Daumantas, were involved in any war crime. Such views are not just the ‘defenders’ of the Lithuanian anti-Semitic activist front (LAF), quoted in the Agency article Jewish telegraph, but also most of the leading university historians who studied the period of Lithuanian occupation and the current leaders of the Lithuanian Jewish community.
The International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania did not find any reliable evidence confirming that J. Lukša-Daumantas had participated in the massacre of Jews in the Lietūkis garage. Despite the sensational statements by biased authors, neither professional historians nor current leaders of the Lithuanian Jewish community were able to establish that J. Lukša-Daumantas was the “leader of the LAF” or that he participated in such massacres, “wrote E Zingeris.
He called not to fall into the trap of Russian propaganda.
The petitioner emphasized that it was especially important not to fall into the trap of official Russian propaganda by trying to falsify the history of violations of international law by the Kremlin, especially before the Nazi invasion of the USSR after 1939. The Hitler-Stalin (or Molotov-Ribbentrop) pact signed.
“1939-1940 The Soviet war against Finland (which eliminated the USSR from the League of Nations on December 14, 1939) is presented as a” defensive measure “, although at the time Stalin was a strategic, albeit temporary, partner of the Third Reich in the war against the West The occupation of the Baltic states threatened by the invasion of one and a half million Red Army soldiers is presented as a “voluntary adherence” of these countries to the USSR.
An amendment to the Russian Constitution was recently adopted, apparently to defend “historical truth,” an attempt to justify the 1939 constitution. The Nazi-Soviet Pact and its secret protocols, President Putin’s public statements questioning the territorial integrity of The Baltic states are part of this whole campaign of distortion of events. Basically, the objective is to deprive the Lithuanian people of the historical right to resist foreign domination, even with a weapon in hand, if necessary. The European Court of Human Rights reaffirmed this right in Strasbourg in 2019. March 12
July 23 of this year. The United States marked the 80th anniversary of the declaration of non-recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. This statement inspired the national liberation movements and all the people in the region who opposed the Soviet occupation, “wrote E. Zinger.
According to the MP, it is worth remembering that during the half-century Soviet occupation, the Kremlin constantly blackmailed the Lithuanian resistance movement, the campaign of the internal armed forces against the Nazis, and even the Zionist struggle to create Israel (also supported the aggression Arab against the Jewish state).
“It is no secret that there is currently a fierce conflict in society over the respect of many historical figures and discussions about which ones to include in the national narrative as positive figures. Clearly, there has been a struggle across the world in the past few months to determine which historical figures are worthy of setting an example for the younger generation. After helping to secure oppression or passively obey the dictates of occupation regimes, they should not find a place among heroes, “wrote E. Zingeris.
Along with repentance, he noted that “unfortunately, there are several monuments to Nazi criminals in Lithuania, the construction of which was not supported by the state and is being vigorously discussed.”
“At the same time, there should be no place in our speech for misinformation and lies about those who gave their lives for freedom in the fight against Stalin’s terrible communist regime. Lithuania had a right to resist,” wrote E. Zingeris.
The full text of the appeal is published in the photos in the text below.
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