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The double genocide narrative holds that there were two contemporary genocides of equal weight, a [[Nazi]] one and a [[Stalinist]] one. [[Michael Shafir]] calls the double genocide theory a form of Holocaust obfuscation,<ref name="Shafir 2016">{{cite journal |last=Shafir |first=Michael |date=Summer 2016 |url=http://jsri.ro/ojs/index.php/jsri/article/viewFile/798/696|title=Ideology, Memory and Religion in Post-Communist East Central Europe: A Comparative Study Focused on Post-Holocaust |journal=Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies |volume=15 |issue=44 |pages=52–110 |archive-url= |archive-date=}} Quote at pp. 64 and 74.</ref> while Carole Lemée sees it as a symptom of persistent [[antisemitism]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lemée |first1=Carole |title=History-memory of Litvak Yiddish spaces after the Holocaust. Between worlds of life and worlds of assassination |journal=Ethnologie française |date=2018 |volume=170 |issue=2 |pages=225–242 |doi=10.3917/ethn.182.0225}}</ref>
In ''The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe'', [[Ljiljana Radonić]] writes that the double genocide theory proposes the existence of an equivalency between [[communism]] and [[Nazism]]. Radonić posits that this theory and charges of Communist genocide both come from "a stable of anti-communist émigré lexicon since the 1950s and more recently revisionist politicians and scholars" as well as the "comparative trivialization" of the Holocaust that "results from tossing postwar killings of suspected Axis collaborators and opponents of [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]]'s regime into the same conceptual framework as the Nazi murder of six million of Jews", describing this as "an effort to demonize communism more broadly as an ideology akin to Nazism
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