Double genocide theory

<p>Double genocide theory  is a term used to refer to the claim that the <a href="/facts/Soviet_war_crimes/yG1oIzGR">atrocities</a> committed by the <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a> against <a href="/facts/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)/W05zyTMj">Eastern Europeans</a> constitute a <a href="/facts/Genocide/IjkNvg7y">genocide</a> that was equivalent in scale and nature to <a href="/facts/The_Holocaust/vGQsAb2y">the Holocaust</a>, in which approximately six million <a href="/facts/Jews/T9Y4wE6A">Jews</a> were systematically murdered by <a href="/facts/Nazi_Germany/8kRbqRpo">Nazi Germany</a>. The theory first gained popularity in <a href="/facts/Lithuania/dApVjLWW">Lithuania</a> after the <a href="/facts/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union/Fyn5jw3n">fall of the Soviet Union</a> in 1991, particularly with regard to discussions about <a href="/facts/The_Holocaust_in_Lithuania/HGYQzxcz">the Holocaust in Lithuania</a>. 
</p><p>A more extreme version of the theory vindicates the actions of <a href="/facts/Collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany_and_Fascist_Italy/W3lo0zBY">local Nazi collaborators</a> as retaliatory by accusing Jews of complicity in <a href="/facts/Political_repression_in_the_Soviet_Union/UVMBvJ5c">Soviet repression</a>, especially in Lithuania, eastern <a href="/facts/Poland/eXJ7fd0D">Poland</a>, and northern <a href="/facts/Romania/yolzk5cN">Romania</a>. Scholars have criticized the double genocide theory as a form of <a href="/facts/Holocaust_trivialization/CoVL3rke">Holocaust trivialization</a>.
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Double genocide theory