There Were Many More Than One Holocaust!

As time goes by since the Second World War that took the lives of 50,000,000 people worldwide in the struggle against nazism and fascism, the Soviet Union lost close to 27,000,000 people. That is also a Holocaust of immense proportions that is being purposely ignored, downplayed, forgotten and besmirched by world imperialism and even by their present hirelings in former USSR.

When we’re commemorating the Great Victory over Fascism this month, we must also never ever forget that there were other Holocausts in the world, not only the one that is being always publicized.

On Sunday, April 22 there took place a Day of Commemoration for the Jasenovac Holocaust. In New York City, organized by the Jasenovac Research Institute, and this day is also being commemorated by people in many countries of the world. People of the world should always remember the many other Holocausts, not just only one!

Following the Nazi invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, the Nazis set-up "Independent State of Croatia", and it was established by Hitler as a pro-Nazi regime. This new Croatian state had a clerical-fascist ideology and it commenced on systematic policy of racial extermination of all Jews, Serbs, Communists and Romas (Gypsies) living within its borders.

From August 1941 to April 1945 hundreds of thousands of these groups, along with all anti-fascists and other nationalities were killed at a complex of internment camps known as Jasenovac, which lay along the Sava River in central Croatia. Jasenovac was amongst the largest of these concentration camps established during the Nazi occupation of the Balkans.

These death camps were ignored in the USA and many other countries and news about them suppressed in the media. This policy by the West, of supporting the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and their total support of Croatian nationalism and the revival of neo-fascism in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, led to a path of destruction still not halted today.

No honest discussion of genocide or human rights in the Balkans can begin without the history of Jasenovac - and once and for all – it is time to discontinue this constant propaganda that there was only one Holocaust.