Huh, I'm told by the internet liberals that it's all complicated.

Ah, those Russians are at it again[1]:
https://www.jpost.com/international/a...
Apparently they just released these. I'd consider this true propaganda (after all, why release it now?). The thread I found it on was pretty even handed. Some pointed out the propaganda that it was, though others said we shouldn't focus on it (that's up for debate). Probably, like Bandera we're only talking about people enjoying the nationalist side of these early "heroes". But wait, now we have something like this:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2...
Where Lithuanians are shown (in the last couple decades) to consider partisans, who had their families murdered and in turn fought the Nazis, to be war criminals. Yeah, you have that right. Which, btw, some people in the thread claim are entirely negated by the current (?) Lithuanian leader having a jewish last name. Right. 
"In a new party line, institutions of the contemporary Lithuanian government now portray Nazi-aligned nationalists as anti-Soviet heroes and anti-Nazi partisans—in particular the Jewish ones—as traitors. "

Lithuania, as you know, completely supports Ukraine in its war against Russia. Understandable. I don't understand why Russia wouldn't release ("declassify") documents against Ukraine. 
just to add some context from the second article: 
"Since they ran a disproportionate number of businesses, newspapers, and civic organizations—the civil society institutions with no future in a Soviet utopia—they were natural targets for the Stalinists and thousands were deported to Siberia. At the same time, since there were also many Lithuanian-Jewish communists, Jews were blamed by their countrymen for the Soviet takeover. That Russian Jews had been wildly overrepresented in the generation that led the Bolshevik Revolution is indisputable. But by the time World War II broke out, Stalin had long since purged most Jewish Communists from the Soviet elite in Moscow. After the war, Jews would have only a minor role in running Soviet Lithuania, in part because of Soviet anti-Semitism but, more crucially, because nearly all of them would be dead."

will also note that I've recommended reading Second hand time to get some ideas on Russian minds, to include during WWII. And yes there was lots of anti-semitism among the Russians (even Russian Partisans who sometimes chose to kill Jews rather than have them help fight). But, again, being sent to a gulag is better than being sent to a death camp or killed by your neighbors. 
And don't forget Stalin's own brand of anti-semitism (who knows where that would have gone, as he was ginning up some at his death):
"After the war, Lithuania was reincorporated into the USSR and Soviet authorities suppressed the truth about the significant Jewish role in the partisan resistance and the remarkable degree of local Christian collaboration with the Nazis"
and read a book called Neighbors that also details how Soviets had no desire to actually prosecute these killers. 
"With independence, the remnants of the Lithuanian-born Jewish community abroad saw an opportunity to finally prosecute the Nazi collaborators who had escaped punishment in Soviet times. "
Anyways, sound familiar?
"The right-wing paramilitaries who had carried out the mass murder of Lithuania’s Jews were now hailed as national heroes on account of their anti-Soviet bona fides. "

But still, the misuse of the word "genocide" seems to have been in full use for a while:
"the institution is emphatically not a Holocaust museum. In what became a model for post-Soviet Lithuania’s new party line, the museum recasts the human rights abuses of the Soviets as the “genocide,” while the Holocaust is brushed under the rug, downgraded to what the permanent exhibit calls Gestapo “repression against Jewish and other populations of Lithuania.” Among the names carved into the museum’s stone facade is Jonas Noreika’s."
Note that the actual genocide is forgotten here. Oh and don't forget this gem:
"The Lithuanian ambassador to the United States, Zygmantas Pavilionis, sees things more conspiratorially. He claims the accusation against Arad was not the work of Lithuanian anti-Semites but rather the work of a Russian conspiracy to make Lithuania look anti-Semitic in the eyes of the world."
and then this:
"An academic paper published on the Genocide and Resistance Research Center’s website went even further than Burauskaite or the court, questioning whether the Holocaust meets the standard for genocide since “although an impressive percentage of the Jews were killed by the Nazis, their ethnic group survived” and later flourished. The Soviet repression, it argues, was indisputably genocide since the Lithuanian intelligentsia, eliminated by Stalin, has never regenerated."[2]
Anyhow, on further review, giving weapons to these Nazi-loving types will only result in good things. [3]
[1] When the war kicked off in full, there was immediate censorship of calling Ukrainians Nazis. now, the Times is running stories about "problematic" nazi symbols that keep showing up on Ukrainians. Huh. It and Bandera lovers are a bigger problem than our media is saying. And no, that doesn't mean Putin's invasion is actually helping the matter. But what it does mean is that these stories are now being published. Why? Are our elites going to throw the Ukrainians under the bus (and if that happens, what happens to the weapons in the hands of extremists?)? Much like the new info that Nordstream 2 was blown up by errant Ukrainians, this kind of info makes for interesting theorizing.
[2] Note that I think the Russian (and the new west's use for Russia etc) use of the word genocide is also pretty bad and only furthers making the word useless (each side engaging in a worthy victims race). 
[3] Finkelstein shared a link about Nazis getting Ukrainian weapons (and it would seem that the attack on Russia was by Nazis, an attack much lauded by our media in a "look what's happening to them" way). There have been a few more of these: https://declassifieduk.org/revealed-russian-neo-nazi-leader-obtained-uk-missiles-in-ukraine/

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