On January 27, the “Russian Line” website published an interview of the Jewish anti-Semite I. Shamir, who said that the Holocaust allegedly became some kind of “secular religion” and became “part of the absolute victory of a completely new ultra-liberal paradigm, based denying the rights of the many in favor of the rights of the few.”

“I see no connection between the holocaust and any real World War II events, but I see that the holocaust is connected with an ideological switch in our day,” Shamir said. On January 28th, the interview was reprinted by the IslamNews website.

On the 8th of April, while speaking at a “Echo of Moscow” radio program, the nationalist writer Alexander Prohanov reproduced the slanderous anti-Semitic cliché that the Holocaust is used to “suppress, exploit, and rule entire continents.” At the same time, he scaled the number of Holocaust victims to twice as few from the actual number.

On February 1st, the Comsomolskaya Pravda newspaper published an interview of the President of the European Jewish Congress Vyacheslav Kantor, taken by journalist D. Steshin. In the interview, Steshin attempted to create the impression that international Jewish organizations do not condemn the patronage of former Nazis by the Baltic countries. The journalist also wrote in his blog that same day that the theft of the sign from the Auschwitz concentration camp was a “deft PR campaign the day before the Auschwitz liberation anniversary.”

In the report of A. Savelyev “Russophobia in Russia, 2009,” which was published in February 2010, he gave absolutely inauthentic data about the service of “up to 150 thousand Jews” in the Vermacht, as well as the fabrication about 10 thousand Jews who fought the Soviet army alongside the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. In reality, these were the members of the so-called labor battalions of the Hungarian army, who were drafted by force and who were not given weapons.

In his correspondence with A. Anzimirov, in the letter written on May 21st, Nazarov demagogically called the prohibition to deny the Holocaust a prohibition to “the study of the actual number of Jewish victims in the Second World War.” On July 10th, he stated that the Holocaust was a punishment prophesied to the Jewish people for abandoning God. The Holocaust topic was touched upon the last letter of the correspondence, written of September 18th. He accused the Jews of allegedly saying that “the Jewish sacrifices in the war are more valuable than the sacrifices of all other people,” that they do not see those who saved non-Jews as Righteous Gentiles (conveniently “forgetting” that the harboring of non-Jews did not usually carry a death penalty), and of demanding that, based on the Holocaust “now everyone has to forgive the 'eternally persecuted' Jews for each of their crimes against other peoples.” The favorite nationalistic topic of “Jewish greed” was also touched upon: “Under the guise of 'aiding in the Holocaust,' more and more peoples, banks, industrial companies are being taxed by reparations.” At the same time, Nazarov demagogically wrote about the covering up of a non-existent “Russian Holocaust enacted by the Jews after 1917.”