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 ::Although the event is politicized (so is the Holocaust, it was used as a state-building and unifying theme by Zionists in Israel, but nobody in their right mind would argue that the Holocaust itself is a political invention) it has far more scholarly backing and documentation than the Russian narrative, which basically has no proof and just continue's Stalin/Hitler's ""big lie"". This Russian narrative is far more politically motivated.''''''  "