First, personally, I am one of the people who accused him of engaging in behaviour that was tantamount to Holocaust denial. I did so after his repeated, blunt, assertions of false equivalency between the undisputed horrors of Nazi Germany and those - some true, many disputed, some outright refuted - of the Soviet Union. I explained that this practice is known as the ‘Double Genocide Theory’ and even linked to articles by Jewish historians and Holocaust academics that explained the issues with the theory and the history of its official use to whitewash far-right movements, particularly in post-Soviet states. Instead of receiving a modicum of serious engagement he instead deliberately and grossly misrepresented and dismissed not only my point but the work of the Jewish academics I linked before leaving with an insult.

Your position is impossible to argue against when you start from the position of “any Estonian who is critical of both of their occupiers is a holocaust denier”.

Let me also say for the record that I have not once, in any of my posts, attempted to compare the “level” of evil of the soviets and the nazis. If by “assertions of false equivalency” you are referring to the fact that both the nazis and soviets did indeed occupy my country and commit crimes against humanity here, then sure, that is something I have been asserting. Still, I have never tried to downplay the horrors the nazis committed, I have only condemned them in the strongest possible terms. I am asking to please include this context about me if you ever feel the need to call me a holocaust denier. Please also remember that I am a real human with a public identity, and words you post on the internet can have a real effect on my life.

As for “leaving with an insult”, I do not believe I have written a single insult to anybody on hexbear (or elsewhere on Lemmy), but I’m sorry if you feel like I was rude at any point. I was simply trying to disengage, because it was clear that the more I interacted on hexbear, the more personal attacks I was receiving.

Secondly, what exactly constitutes Kremlin propaganda?

I think this question is bait, but I will answer in good faith with an example to hopefully drive the point home.

Posting " 10 reasons why we need communism…" is clearly not Kremlin propaganda. Posting " Ukraine shouldn’t even exist, long live CCCP" is clearly Kremlin propanda.