Oleg Platonov

Oleg Anatolyevich Platonov (; born 11 January 1950) is a Russian ultranationalist writer and Holocaust denier. He is the Director General of the Institute for the History of Russian Civilization, a Moscow-based think tank. He is known for promoting the antisemitic conspiracy theory Judeo-Bolshevism, which claims that Jews were responsible for the Russian Revolution.

Biography Platonov was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, then known as Sverdlovsk. In 1972 he graduated from Moscow College 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 lived for seven months in the United States then returned to Russia. He published the encyclopedic dictionary Holy Rus and four volumes of The Great Encyclopedia of Russian People (out of a proposed twenty volumes), in which he praises the civilization of "Holy Rus'″ which, however, he claims has been undermined since the 17th century by various foreign elements ("чужебесия″) - forerunners of "Jewish-Masonic plotters" which he claims organized the Bolshevik Revolution.

Although Platonov holds the Bolshevik regime responsible for 87 million lives, he argues Joseph Stalin made "the first step toward the salvation of Russia from Jewish Bolshevism.″ with Platonov as the Institute's Director General.

Holocaust denial A publisher of the works of other Holocaust deniers, Platonov was described in 2009 as "the leading backer of Holocaust denial in Russia" by the historian Stephen E. Atkins. writer and historian Semyon Reznik, and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia regard Platonov's works as antisemitic. Reznik also notes that Platonov is one of the main promoters of the blood libel.

Works Russia's Crown of Thorns: The Secret History of Freemasonry 1731-1996 (Moscow, 1996) Еврейский вопрос в России (The Jewish Question in Russia; Moscow: Presskom, 2005); Why America is dying (Почему Погибнет Америка; Moscow, 2008); , (2005)