Oleg Platonov

Oleg Anatolyevich Platonov (Russian: Оле́г Анато́льевич Плато́нов; born 11 January 1950) is a contemporary Russian writer, historian, and economist. He is the Director General of the Institute for the History of Russian Civilization, a Moscow-based think tank.
He has been described as ultranationalist, anti-Semitic, and a Holocaust denier.

Platonov was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, then known as Sverdlovsk. In 1972 he graduated from the Moscow College of Consumer Cooperation. Platonov has 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 7 months in the United States then returned to Russia. Platonov has published the encyclopedic dictionary Holy Rus' and four volumes of the Holy Rus'. The Great Encyclopedia of Russian People (out of a proposed twenty volumes). In that work, he praises the civilization of "Holy Rus'″ which, however, has been undermined since 17th century by various foreign elements ("чужебесия″) - forerunners of 'Jewish-Masonic plotters' that in Platonov's opinion organized the Russian revolution. Though 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.″

Since 2003, Platonov's encyclopedia publishing center was transformed into the independent think tank 'Institute for the History of Russian Civilization' (short name 'Russian Institute'), whose goal is stated as research and dissemination of the ideas of Metropolitan Ioann of St. Petersburg and Ladoga (Ivan Snychev) (1927–1995) with Platonov as the Institute's Director General.

In his work The History of the Russian People in the Twentieth Century, Platonov treats the February and October revolutions of 1917 as handiwork of Judæo-Masonic conspirators, the agents of the Entente and of the German Empire. Similarly, he regards the leaders of Ukrainian and Baltic independence movements as spies and German agents.

A review in the Journal of Historical Review of a special issue of Russky Vestnik on Holocaust revisionism quotes Platonov as follows:

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."

The Russian statesman and human rights activist Alexander Brod, writer and historian Semyon Reznik, and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russiaregard Platonov's works as antisemitic. Reznik also notes that Platonov is one of the main promoters of the blood libel.

• 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) ISBN 5-98083-042-1
• Why America is dying Почему Погибнет Америка (Moscow, 2008) ISBN 978-5-98132-125-2