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Why attempts to conflate nazism with communism should set alarm bells ringing
The EU parliamentary vote in favour of historical revisionism is of importance to us all, writes PHIL KATZ
The Motherland Calls, a monument to the Red Army's victory over the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, the turning point of World War II

WHEN I wrote my book, Freedom From Tyranny, the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism — which in terms of falsifying history ranks up with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — was still taking shape. 

The Prague Declaration had been initiated by former Czech president Vaclav Havel in 2008 but has changed its title a bewildering number of times. 

It is the parent of Black Ribbon Day and the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, adopted by the European Union in October 2011. 

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