In a video of a speech by Assad translated and published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Monday, Assad can be seen telling a listening crowd that “there is no evidence that six million Jews were killed” during the Holocaust.
“True, there were concentration camps, but what shows you that this is a politicized issue, not a humanitarian one and not a real one, is that we talk about these six million, but why don’t we talk about the 26 million Soviets who were killed in that war? Are the six million more precious?”
While some 26 million people from the Soviet Union were killed during World War II, the bloc’s population in 1939 equaled roughly 170 million people, compared to some 9.5 million Jews.
Furthermore, more than 8.5 million of the Soviets killed during World War II were killed in military battles. READ MORE
