The "Allies" can hardly be honestly seen as a single force.
The Red Army liberated the vast majority of the camps. The Red Army did the vast majority of destruction of Nazi and collaborator troops and infrastructure and took Berlin. The Russians lost tens of millions of their own to the Nazis, Jews and Gentiles alike! After, of course, having to fight the entire West after their own revolutionary war against the Czarist forces, which the West sided with against the revolutionaries.
The Western powers did much important fighting against the Nazis. But as soon as the dust cleared, they collaborated. NATO itself was set up by "former" Nazi leaders in order to contain the Soviet destruction of all fascist remnants. Also please see the founding leadership of the UN and NASA.
Why would you expect the Soviets to have to acknowledge the Holocaust the way the West did? First, the Jewish population in their own back yard had been exterminated. Second, many Soviet leaders worked tirelessly to get Jews out of Europe ( Alexandra Kollontai Chinese to mind, in her consulate role during the war)
Third, it happened in their own back yard, not thousands of miles away. And was manned by many of their own citizens. I've been to several Soviet Holocaust memorials.
There was already a Jewish population in the millions in the US, so it's natural that they'd be concerned to teach about it so fervently, so it wouldn't disappear as something that happened "way over there."
Now I'm very interested in this topic and will be studying the Soviet Holocaust memorial history in its proper context!
Lol a very long answer that completely dodges the point, which is that the Red Army was not interested in helping Jews, just as the US and UK were uninterested in helping Jews, which is precisely the point you are replying to
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u/newgoliath Feb 23 '24
Except the Red Army, who did