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‘Part of the Civilized World Community’: Holocaust in Historical Politics of the Unrecognized Republics of Transnistria and Donbas
Author(s): Voronovici, Aleksandr
Date: 2024
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Curriculum, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Nationalism
Abstract: Based on an analysis of history textbooks and commemorative declarations on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the paper argues that the leadership of the unrecognized republics of Transnistria and Donbas has instrumentalized Holocaust remembrance to legitimize their regimes internally and externally. The use of the Holocaust in historical politics allowed the secessionist regimes to portray themselves as opponents of radical nationalism and representatives of the multi-ethnic population of Transnistria and Donbas. In external relations, the secessionist leaders have used Holocaust commemorations as a tool for self-positioning within international ‘memory wars,’ and as a channel for the consolidation of the ‘civilized’ image of unrecognized republics and the extension of international contacts. Despite a quite similar discourse on the Holocaust, the aims of the instrumentalization of the Holocaust in historical politics have differed in certain respects due to the dissimilar challenges faced by the Transnistrian and Donbas unrecognized republics.
From the Anti-Semitic Campaign in 1968 to the Nationalism of the Populist Right 50 Years Later: Anti-Semitic Narrative in Poland as a Tool of Politics
Author(s): Żuk, Piotr
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism: Discourse, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Politics, Nationalism
Abstract: The main purpose of the article is to deconstruct slogans and phrases that transmit anti-Semitism in Poland despite the apparent changing political and historical context. It contains a comparative analysis of messages from two historical periods: the anti-Semitic campaign of 1968 and the nationalist and anti-Semitic revival in 2018. The material related to the 1968 events comes from archival press materials published between 1967 and 1968. On the other hand, materials illustrating the upsurge of anti-Semitism in the public space after the adoption of the memory law emanate from various sources representing the PiS (Law and Justice) party environment released between January and May 2018. The analysis of the anti-Semitic narrative from two different historical periods shows that nationalist message is always intended to strengthen the authoritarian power and mobilise its supporters by attacking imaginary opponents. Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in communist Poland served a similar function as anti-Semitic clichés under the rule of the populist right.