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=== Post-Communist states and Holocaust memory ===
{{see also|Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism#In political discourse}}
According to political scientist [[Jelena Subotić]], the Holocaust memory was hijacked in [[post-Communist]] states in an attempt to erase fascist crimes and local participation to the Holocaust, and use their imagery to represent real or imagined crimes of Communist states. Subotić discussed specifically examples in [[Croatia]] and [[Serbia]], but governments across the region "have used public monuments, museums, and memorials to nationally appropriate the memory of the Holocaust, and use it to produce a new visual remembrance of their 20th Century past that supports their myths of nationhood."<ref name="Subotić 2019">{{cite web|last=Subotić|first=Jelena|date=18 November 2019|url=https://balkaninsight.com/2019/11/18/how-holocaust-memory-was-hijacked-in-post-communist-states/|title=How Holocaust Memory was Hijacked in Post-Communist States|website=Balkan Insight|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref> According to Subotić, this form of [[historical revisionism]] of the Holocaust and post-Communist memory "has become so mainstream and state sponsored that in 2018 Croatian president [[Kolinda Grabar
A report by the [[Wiesel Commission]] criticized the comparison of [[Gulag]] victims with Jewish [[Holocaust]] victims, as was done in ''[[The Black Book of Communism]]'', as an attempt at Holocaust trivialization.<ref name="Wiesel Commission 2004">{{cite book|url=http://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20080226-romania-commission-postwar.pdf|title=Distortion, negationism and minimization of the Holocaust in postwar Romania|last2=Ioanid|first2=Radu|last3=Ionescu|first3=Mihail E.|last4=Benjamin|first4=Lya|date=2004|publisher=International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania|pages=47, 59|last1=Friling|first1=Tuvia}}</ref> The [[Historical Museum of Serbia]] put on the highly-publicized exhibition "In the Name of the People – Political Repression in Serbia 1944–1953", which according to Subotić "promised to display new historical documents and evidence of communist crimes, ranging from assassinations, kidnappings and detentions in camps to collectivisation, political trials and repression" to actually show "random and completely decontextualised photographs of 'victims of communism', which included innocent people but also many proven fascist collaborators, members of the quisling government, right-wing militias, and the Axis-allied Chetnik movement." Another, more damning example is the well-known photograph of prisoners from the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], which was displayed in the section devoted to a Communist-era camp for political prisoners on the Adriatic island of Goli Otok, describing it as "the example of living conditions of Goli Otok prisoners", and not correcting it even after the misrepresentation was exposed. Only after an outcry from Holocaust historians, a small note was taped underneath the display caption that read: "Prisoners' bunk-beds in the Dachau camp."<ref name="Subotić 2019"/>
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