(Originally at http://www.themontclarion.org/archives/3747557/comment-page-1#comment-25748
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I’d like to respond briefly to some of those who posted
“comments” here.
First: I strive to be objective in my research. I always ask for EVIDENCE.
When you insist on evidence, you discover , as I have, that all the
stories of “Stalinist atrocities”, etc., are fabrications, falsehoods, lies
– at least, all of those I have investigated so far.
A few examples:
The “Holodomor” is a Nazi-inspired myth. There was no
“Holodomor” – meaning, deliberate famine to starve Ukrainians (or anybody
else). There has never been a shred of evidence of any such thing.
The “Holodomor” is a falsification, an invention by
pro-Nazi Ukrainian Nationalists. The notion of “deliberate famine” does not
appear before 1953, when it is used by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who fled to Canada and
the USA.
There was a serious famine in 1932-33. There had been famines every
2-4 years in Russia for at least a thousand years. There was a serious famine in 1921-2,
another in 1924, and another in 1928.
The famine of 1932-33 was not caused by the Soviet leadership in any
way: not by collectivization, nor by the exporting of grain, and certainly not
deliberately.
Collectivization of agriculture solved the perennial problem of
periodic famines! After 1933 there were no more, except for one serious famine in
1946-1947, again not the fault of the Soviet government.
The Soviet collectivization of agriculture was one of the greatest
triumphs of social engineering of the 20th century. If capitalists gave prizes
to communists – which, of course, they do not – the benefits of collectivization
would have won Stalin and the Soviet government the Nobel Prize. It unquestionably saved
the lives of tens of millions of people who would have died in succeeding famines.
It also permitted the industrialization of the USSR and the defeat of
the Nazis, thus saving Europe and all of us from Nazi genocide.
There is a major controversy over the “Katyn massacre”
issue. It is very far from clear that the Soviets shot all the Poles, however many there
might have been. There’s plenty of contradictory evidence.
This very interesting (and complicated!) controversy is simply not
taught! In fact, it is “taboo” among anticommunists even to mention that it
exists! You can find out more about it at my “Katyn Forest Whodunnit” page
– http://www.tinyurl.com/katyn-the-truth
The problem is ANTI-communist propaganda!
As for “Holocaust denier”: the sober facts are the
following:
There were no “mass murders” by the Stalin regime –
none that I have ever found, and I have investigated all the allegations -- so
there’s no evidence of any (for the “Katyn” case, see above);
However, the Western imperialist states – the USA, the U.K., Belgium, France, for example – were guilty of many mass murders in their colonial possessions. These mass murders are seldom discussed in history courses.
The Soviet Union, and the worldwide communist movement which it
inspired and supported, were by far the biggest factor in fighting the imperialism of
Western capitalist countries. By so doing the Soviet Union played the leading role in the
liberation of hundreds of millions of people from colonial oppression and exploitation by
the Western capitalist countries, and the Japanese.
Therefore, if you want to look for politicians to compare with
Hitler, it is much more accurate to pick someone like Winston Churchill, a fervent racist
and imperialist. The “Hitler-Stalin” comparison simply does not fit the facts.
The “Victims of Communism” memorial was sponsored by Nazi
collaborators. It’s an unintended compliment, therefore, since it was indeed the
communists who defeated the Nazis and their collaborators, like these people, who have
every reason to hate the communist movement.
Mr Yatsyuk is completely wrong. Not only did Stalin NOT “kill
more people than any other dictator” -- I have yet to discover a single
“crime”, a single “mass murders”, that Stalin committed. Many are
claimed, but all such claims are fraudulent – anticommunist fabrications.
Soviet history has indeed been heavily falsified. I am constantly
surprised when I investigate allegation after allegation of “crimes”, “mass
murders”, etc., only to discover that all are false, that the evidence does not
support them.
Perhaps it is naïve of me to be surprised. After all, a friend of
mine told me, “Why shouldn’t the anticommunists lie about communism?” That
is a good point – but I am still surprised every time I do serious research on yet
another so-called “crime of Stalinism” and find that it is yet another fraud.
- Grover Furr