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Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 23, 2026, 9:23 AM

Lithuania Surpassed Its Russian Teachers

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Report No. 9R-598 is not an innocent historical disagreement. It is an official exoneration, manufactured by changing the rules of evidence to fit the result the state required. When a document incriminates Kazys Škirpa, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research...

Eugene J. Levin

Jul 23, 2026, 5:48 AM

Europe’s First Jewish Autonomy Lasted Five Years

In 1919, the new Lithuanian state did something no European government had yet done. It recognized its Jews as a national community entitled to run important parts of their collective life, not merely as individual citizens or members of...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 21, 2026, 6:52 AM

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The Lithuanian radical right sought German money for pogroms a year before the Soviets came. Every national defense needs a start date, and Lithuania’s has one. The official account of the wartime catastrophe opens in June 1940, with the Soviet...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 20, 2026, 4:43 AM

When Kaunas’s Jews Learned Whom to Fear

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This summer marks eighty-five years since the destruction of Jewish Kaunas (Kovno to its Jews) began. The anniversary arrives amid a renewed rupture of Jewish trust. Since October 7, 2023, many Jews have discovered that people and institutions they...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 19, 2026, 2:12 AM

The Lithuanian Ratline to Los Angeles

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How Holocaust collaborators remade themselves as anti-Communist refugees, used the Lithuanian émigré community as cover, and walked into the American establishment. Stasys Žakevičius died peacefully in Los Angeles in 1973. Seven years earlier a federal court in the same city...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 17, 2026, 5:56 AM

The Verdict America Never Issued

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In The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius, I described a Lithuanian state institution that behaves less like a research body than an information-war unit: the conclusion is protected, unwelcome evidence is treated as hostile material, and the person carrying...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 16, 2026, 4:53 AM

The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius

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Lithuania's Genocide Centre defends claims it knows to be false, answers evidence by designating the people who carry it, and has adopted the technique it condemns in Moscow. Lithuania is right about Russia. The Kremlin chooses its conclusion first and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 9, 2026, 7:04 AM

Endless Capacity for Reconciliation

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The Gochin-Foti model, and the Lithuanian state that chose fraud Jews do not believe in inherited guilt. A grandchild does not carry the crimes of a grandfather. Each person answers for what he himself does, and for nothing his blood...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 27, 2026, 12:17 PM

How Propaganda Chooses the Date

A government does not need to deny a murder. It only needs to choose where the calendar begins and where it ends

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 25, 2026, 10:13 PM

An Aliyah to the Torah and Tears of Joy

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From Papilė to Zurich, l’dor v’dor Nearly fifty years ago, on November 13, 1976, my grandfather Samuel Gochin was called to the Torah at my bar mitzvah in South Africa. He was 75 years old. Next weekend, in Zurich, I will...

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