Oleg Platonov

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Oleg Anatoliĭovych Platonov (Russian: Олег Анатольевич Платонов; born 11 January 1950) is a contemporary Russian revisionist, ultranationalist, anti-Semitic writer, historian, economist and into holocaust denial. He is the Director General of as think tank, the Institute for the History of Russian Civilization^[1].

In a revisionist journal, he is described as follows ^[2]:

Russian historian Dr. Oleg A. Platonov writes of the "myth of the 'Holocaust,' namely, that six million Jews were allegedly put to death in gas chambers during the Second World War. "This myth, he continues, "has taken hold in the mass mind with particular force,"with the aim of encouraging non-Jews to "feel a sense of guilt, repent and pay restitution."[2]

1 Biography
2 Works
3 See also
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[edit] Biography

Platonov was born in Sverdlovsk. In 1972 he has graduated from the Moscow University of Consumer Cooperation. He worked in the international department of TsSU and since 1977 in the Institute for Labor. In 1995 he organized a research institution Russian Civilization. He has lived 7 months in the United States then returned to Russia. He published the encyclopedic dictionary Saint Rus and four volumes of the Saint Rus. The Great Encyclopedia of Russian People (out of proposed twenty volumes).

Since 2003 the Encyclopedia publishing center was transformed into the independent think tank Institute for the History of Russian Civilization (short name Russian Institute) that has the goal to research and promote the ideas of Metropolitan Ioann of St. Petersburg and Ladoga (Ivan Snychev) (1927-1995) [3][4] with Platonov as the Institute's Director General^[1]