Benjamin Netanyahu and His Ilk Are Distorting History for Political Gain
Figures like Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and US secretary of state Antony Blinken have tried to rewrite history to serve their own ends, often to equate Nazism and Communism. They exemplify the alarming trend of politically expedient distortions of history.
Soviet prisoners of war covering a mass grave after the Babyn Yar massacre, October 1, 1941. (Johannes Hähle / Wikimedia Commons)
“Eighty-two years ago, Nazis murdered 34,000 Jews at Babyn Yar. Soviets buried this history, which today Putin’s government manipulates to provide cover for Russia’s abuses in Ukraine.”
This statement, made on Twitter/X by US secretary of state Antony Blinken on September 29, has 6.3 million views.
However, the claim that the Soviet Union deliberately concealed the history of the Babyn Yar massacre is nothing short of a fabrication. It is but one of several recent examples of Western leaders issuing deliberately misleading statements that seem to be intentionally designed to revise or rewrite the historical record to fit contemporary geopolitical narratives.
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