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Via Sputnik News:
A scandalous art exhibit opened in the Estonian city of Tartu over the weekend, featuring comics, paintings and video projects by Polish artists offering a 'humorous' treatment of the Holocaust.
The exhibition features work by artists including Artur Zmijewski's, whose humerous Holocaust 'art' has already been banned in Germany.
A piece of film art by the artist features naked people happily playing tag in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Another shows what appears to be a former inmate of the infamous concentration camp deciding to update the serial number tattoo on his wrist.
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Vladimir Simindey, historian and director of the 'Historical Memory Fund' expressed his outrage over the exhibition. Rossiyskaya Gazeta quoted him as saying that "it is not by accident that Polish artists speculatively giggling over Jews and other victims of Nazism found 'shelter and bread' in the Estonian city of Tartu; this is one of the centers of neo-Nazi sentiment in this country. The Visiting scandalists delight Estonian Neo-Nazis and their sympathizers, given that previously even they themselves did not dare to show their hatred in such an 'artistic' manner. This [exhibition] serves to demonstrate a kind of 'liberation' from the uncomfortable memory of complicity of some Tartuans in the terrible Nazi atrocities. Now it's just become a joke for them."
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