27 January 2026

'Racial concepts that were destroyed by the fire of Holocaust’. Subhumans, crypto-Nazism, and Raya Kushner’s warning

Every year on 27 January the world commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirms its unwavering commitment to combating anti-Semitism, racism, and other forms of hatred. This date was officially established in 2005 by Resolution 60/7 of the United Nations General Assembly which was initiated by 104 member states of the organization, including the Republic of Belarus. It was precisely on 27 January 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The exact number of victims is unknown, though various sources estimate it to be between 1.5 and 4 million people. In a conversation with BelTA, Igor Marzalyuk, a member of the House of Representatives, discussed how history has proven the fallacy of racial superiority theories and expressed concern that certain forces are attempting to justify the Nazis and their collaborators today.

Racist foundation of Nazi ideology

“Hitlerism arose from the basis of so-called racial nationalism. Why did this happen? In the 19th century, there was a rapid expansion of Western European powers into Africa, a significant part of Asia, and other regions, while in the United States of America, the indigenous population was being exterminated. All of this demanded ideological justification.We know Charles Darwin’s theory on the origin of species. This theory, which explains by scientific methods the origin of species and the struggle between them, contains an important postulate - the theory of natural selection. And so, the racists transferred the principles of Darwin's theory, in an entirely unscientific manner, from the biological world to the human world. They claimed that just as there are higher and lower species, more and less developed individuals among animals, so too is humanity divided into ‘races of slaves’ and ‘races of masters’,” Igor Marzalyuk noted.

This concept would later form the foundation of the doctrine of the Third Reich and the entirety of Nazi ideology. “For the Nazis, there was no equality of peoples, only a hierarchy of races. And by races, they did not mean those generally accepted in science. They believed the true Aryans – the Northern Europeans –were the superior race. There was a philosopher, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who argued that it was the Germanic peoples who founded most states. Thus, there were two most advanced races: the Germanic (which included the English, Scandinavians, and Dutch) and the Mediterranean, represented by the French, Italians, and Spaniards. Those were the two dominant races, which were to be on top of all others,” the historian explained.

From the Nazi perspective, all Slavs without exception were considered a slave race. “We were viewed within this concept as subhumans, because they argued that all our cultural and technological advancements were imported from outside, primarily by the Germanic peoples. Consequently, we were destined to be subjugated and turned into a slave race, while the dominant position would be reserved exclusively for representatives of the superior race. Furthermore, there were so-called ‘racial parasites’ or, for the Nazis, non-races altogether. Jews and Roma were not races, but racial diseases for the Nazis. According to the Nazis’ plan, Jews were to be completely exterminated, without a trace. Not a single Jew had any chance of survival. Nazi ideology argued that the negative qualities inherent in Jews were incurable, and therefore, Jews could not be integrated or adapted into white European society,” concluded Igor Marzalyuk.

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