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Both Nazis and Communists hate Jews. Only one is taught in schools.

JL;DR SUMMARY Erica Smith explores the disparity in how antisemitism from Nazism and communism is perceived and taught in educational systems. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustSoviet UnionEducationAuthoritarianismNazismCommunismMaoHistorical Memory

Places mentioned

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
"They held the Nuremberg Trials."
Ukraine
"Stalin engineered a famine in Ukraine that starved 3-to-7 million people."
China
"Mao's Great Leap Forward killed between 20 and 45 million."
Cambodia
"Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia executed up to 2 million people in just a few years."
Moscow, Russian Federation
"Stalin banned Hebrew."
South Africa
"South Africa had truth commissions."

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