In June 2008, Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre accused signatories V�clav Havel and Vytautas Landsbergis of having " anti-Semitic, racist and Holocaust distortionist motives . " Lithuanian politician Leonidas Donskis MEP has accused the declaration of John Mann called the declaration a " sinister document, it uses the smokescreen of legitimate concerns about the evils of Communist regimes to insist that Soviet Communism and Nazi Fascism be declared equal ."