Soviet wartime propaganda deliberately obscured Nazi persecution of Jews

Evidence

Even during the war, the Soviets seem to have made considerable efforts to blur the fact that the Nazis persecuted Jews. To stress it could have had untoward effects—either by arousing sympathy for the Nazis, or by arousing sympathy for the Jews, both undesirable in Soviet eyes. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1369

Categorization

• XREF: A striking corroboration for the cluster’s mechanism claims about how regimes manage which victims become legible — parallels the rhetorical management of others’ suffering that Said-adjacent work examines.
• SEED: Angle for an essay: the double-bind of sympathetic attention — a regime suppresses evidence of victims’ suffering because sympathy itself is a politically usable force.