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Lithuania’s MFA Mourns Jews, Omits the Shooters

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania’s History Problem Starts at Home

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Five Lithuanian Institutions Now Have Papilė’s Names

The evidence was published. Now the municipality, encyclopedia, heritage authorities, archive and local library have been formally asked to correct,...

monday 50

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Systematic Falsification of History: Budrys’s Words, Lithuania’s Record

20.09.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Has Lithuania’s Revocation Been Revoked?

18.09.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Foreign Ministry Named Nazis, Not Local Killers

15.09.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania’s Genocide Centre: Death Is Not Exoneration

13.09.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania’s Culture Ministry Says Holocaust History Cannot Be Erased

Lithuania’s Culture Ministry Says Holocaust History Cannot Be Erased. It Erases the Killers. “We cannot erase it and have no right to keep...

10.09.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Budrys Wrote the Rule for Serbia. Lithuania Wrote Its Own Exemptions.

08.09.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Before We Say Kaddish for Nemenčinė

08.09.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Forty-Six Thousand in Twenty-Four Hours

07.09.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

A Ponzi Scheme of Historical Authority

04.09.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Did PEMC Check the History?

03.09.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

How Antisemitism Is Manufactured

01.09.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania Corrected One Word. Now It Has No Excuse

31.08.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

First Prize: 150 Rubles

In 2024 Lithuania’s Genocide Centre placed Kazys Braželis in a genocide-victims register without stating the offense behind his 1962 sentence. A...

29.08.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Africa’s Universal Rule – Until Israel Acts

27.08.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Missing Rebuttal in Report No. 9R-598

Hilberg supplied the frame. Lithuania’s own Commission supplied the evidence. The 2024 report does not engage either one. The Lithuanian Genocide...

26.08.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Škirpa Determination Has Been Transmitted to IHRA

24.08.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Law of Unintended Consequences

21.08.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Omission Can Be Denial. Lithuania Said So.

On May 9, 2024, a Jewish citizen of Vilnius went to Antakalnis Cemetery to stand at the grave of his grandfather Aron Fridman, who fought Nazi Germany...

19.08.2026 80

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Two Peas in a Pod, Six Years Later

Lithuania has spent decades telling the world what is wrong with Russia. The description fits Vilnius. On August 17, 2026, a Moscow court sentenced...

17.08.2026 60

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Promote, Retire, Weaponize

Lithuania’s problem is no longer merely what its historians conclude. It is what the state does to evidence that produces the wrong conclusion....

16.08.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Law Behind the Fridman Trial

Artur Fridman did not enter an empty courtroom. Lithuania spent 15 years building the criminal-law boundary now applied to his Facebook post. Artur...

15.08.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Evidence at The Hague. None in Pretoria.

South Africa’s Justice Minister linked Israel to domestic unrest and the ICJ case. Her own newspaper source recorded the missing part: evidence....

13.08.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

South Africa Asked for Universal Law. It Got It.

Pretoria went to The Hague to make principles travel against Israel. Its own pleadings explain why those principles do not stop at Israel’s border...

12.08.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Certain Jews: Lithuania’s Own Words

11.08.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Nazis, Soviets, and Collaborators

Lithuania names its rescuers. It anonymizes its murderers. Thirteen years ago this week, a man died in Sutton, Massachusetts. Vladas Zajanckauskas was...

09.08.2026 100

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Europe Keeps the Territories. Israel Gets the Label.

Europe grants its own distant sovereignties history, constitutional complexity and democratic nuance. The Jewish state receives one word: colonial. On...

07.08.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Pretoria Signed for It

South Africa demands that international law bind Israel. A letter delivered and stamped in Pretoria today asks whether it binds South Africa. A letter...

06.08.2026 70

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Who Judges Lithuania’s 157 Measures?

Lithuania’s action plan contains useful projects and measurable commitments. It still lacks an institution capable of deciding that the state itself...

05.08.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

I Was Not the First to File

Since 2015 I have filed forty-nine formal submissions with Lithuanian state bodies. Eight lawsuits and international filings. Eleven to the Genocide...

04.08.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Meaning of August 26

Guilt, Shame, and Lithuania’s Moral Inversion Lithuania found legal guilt and imposed no punishment. It found Jewish speech and built a 220-page...

03.08.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

How Many Jews Did Lithuanians Murder?

Lithuania published the deployment map. Foreign courts named the men. The state never produced the ledger. How many Jews did Lithuanians murder? The...

02.08.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Ceuta Exposes South Africa’s Selective Conscience

Pretoria mobilizes law and outrage against Israel. When Africans died at Spain’s African frontier, its Pan-African conscience went silent....

01.08.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Killing System Rehearsed in Lithuania

Nazi Germany brought the command to kill. German police shot 201 people at Gargždai on June 24, 1941; five days later Heydrich issued his first...

30.07.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania’s Alibi Is a Diversion

Lithuania answers evidence of institutional participation with a defense of collective innocence because collective innocence is easier to prove than...

29.07.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

No Punishment for Dailidė. Up to Two Years for Fridman.

Lithuania has never punished a Lithuanian for the murder of Jews. It threatens a Jewish citizen with prison for speech. On March 27, 2006, the Vilnius...

26.07.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Murder Was Administered – Part 2

The Innocence Was Manufactured – The evidence produced culpability. The courts produced exemption. Part I set out the documentary record: the...

25.07.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Murder Was Administered – Part 1

Before the pit came the police file On July 5, 1941, a Lithuanian troop commander asked what should be done with nine captured Jews and their...

24.07.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Lithuania Surpassed Its Russian Teachers

Report No. 9R-598 is not an innocent historical disagreement. It is an official exoneration, manufactured by changing the rules of evidence to fit the...

23.07.2026 250

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Redi Tlhabi and the Death of a Word

When a contested legal conclusion becomes editorial shorthand, it stops protecting the people who need it. On July 15, more than 1,000 people gathered...

22.07.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

1938, Not 1940

The Lithuanian radical right sought German money for pogroms a year before the Soviets came. Every national defense needs a start date, and...

21.07.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

When Kaunas’s Jews Learned Whom to Fear

This summer marks eighty-five years since the destruction of Jewish Kaunas (Kovno to its Jews) began. The anniversary arrives amid a renewed rupture...

20.07.2026 80

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The Lithuanian Ratline to Los Angeles

How Holocaust collaborators remade themselves as anti-Communist refugees, used the Lithuanian émigré community as cover, and walked into the...

19.07.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Verdict America Never Issued

In The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius, I described a Lithuanian state institution that behaves less like a research body than an information-war...

17.07.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius

Lithuania’s Genocide Centre defends claims it knows to be false, answers evidence by designating the people who carry it, and has adopted the...

16.07.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Standard Pretoria Built

South Africa built a legal standard at The Hague. It now applies at the Limpopo. Mqondisi Moyo’s statement of July 12 needs no help from me, and it...

12.07.2026 90

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Grant Arthur Gochin

I Still Call Myself a Gay Liberal

I still call myself a gay liberal. At least, that is how I define myself. Whether every person who now claims those words would still permit me to use...

11.07.2026 80

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Endless Capacity for Reconciliation

The Gochin-Foti model, and the Lithuanian state that chose fraud Jews do not believe in inherited guilt. A grandchild does not carry the crimes of a...

09.07.2026 100

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Grant Arthur Gochin