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The Eastern European approaches of history have been incorporated in the European Union agenda, [180] among them the Prague Declaration and the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, [181] proclaimed by the European Parliament in August 2008 [181] and endorsed by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe ...
The European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism was a resolution of the European Parliament adopted on 2 April 2009 by a vote of 533–44 with 33 abstentions, in which the European Parliament condemned totalitarian crimes and called for the recognition of "Nazism, Stalinism and fascist and Communist regimes as a common legacy" and for "an honest ...
Other historians and political scientists have made comparisons between Nazism and Stalinism as part of their work. The comparison has long provoked political controversy, [96] [97] and in the 1980s led to the historians' dispute within Germany known as the Historikerstreit. [98]
The need for equal treatment of Nazi and Soviet crimes. Hypocrisy of discrimination among victims of totalitarian crimes. II. TOTALITARIAN CRIMES: CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY Crimes committed in Latvia by the occupation regimes of the USSR and Germany (1940–90). Political repression in the 1940s and 1950s in Estonia.
In Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, Fitzpatrick and Michael Geyer disputed the concept of totalitarianism, stating that it entered political discourse first as a term of self-description by the Italian Fascists and was only later used as a framework to compare Nazi Germany with the Soviet Union, which were not as ...
To Pipes, not just Stalinism was a mere continuation of Leninism, but more to it, "the Russia of 1917–1924 was no less 'totalitarian' than the Russia of the 1930s"; Pipes compared Lenin to Adolf Hitler and described the former as a precursor of the latter: "not only totalitarianism, but Nazism and the Holocaust has a Russian and a Leninist ...
Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism (cf. Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism). Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement.
The Black Ribbon Day, officially known in the European Union as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and also referred to as the Europe-wide Day of Remembrance for the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, [1] [2] is an international day of remembrance for victims of totalitarianism regimes, specifically Stalinist, communist, Nazi and fascist ...