Sources for debunking the imperialist myth of the Holodomor. Compiled by Lemmygrad user Tankie1917
Last update - 3rd April 2021
List of sources -
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/
“There was a very serious famine in the USSR, including (but not limited to) the Ukrainian SSR, in 1932-33. But there has never been any evidence of a “Holodomor” or “deliberate famine,” and there is none today.
The “Holodomor” fiction was invented in by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who found havens in Western Europe, Canada, and the USA after the war. An early account is Yurij Chumatskij, Why Is One Holocaust Worth More Than Others? published in Australia in 1986 by “Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army” this work is an extended attack on “Jews” for being too pro-communist.
Proyect’s review perpetuates the following falsehoods about the Soviet collectivization of agriculture and the famine of 1932-33:
* That in the main the peasants resisted collectivization because it was a “second serfdom.”
* That the famine was caused by forced collectivization. In reality the famine had environmental causes.
* That “Stalin” – the Soviet leadership – deliberately created the famine.
* That it was aimed at destroying Ukrainian nationalism.
* That “Stalin” (the Soviet government) “stopped the policy of “Ukrainization,” the promotion of a policy to encourage Ukrainian language and culture.
None of these claims are true. None are supported by evidence. They are simply asserted by Ukrainian nationalist sources for the purpose of ideological justification of their alliance with the Nazis and participation in the Jewish Holocaust, the genocide of Ukrainian Poles (the Volhynian massacres of 1943-44) and the murder of Jews, communists, and many Ukrainian peasants after the war.
Their ultimate purpose is to equate communism with Nazism (communism is outlawed in today’s “democratic Ukraine”); the USSR with Nazi Germany; and Stalin with Hitler.”
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf
Notes on Thomas Walker - the “photographer” who never existed and never went near Ukraine, and the Nazi sympathising US/UK MSM at the time aka the Hearst Media conglomerate
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpQllPVzQ2UFd3aWM/view
Taugers notes on Ukraine Harvest during 32-33
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpNExnSEVhMjBLRlE/view
Taugers notes
“Until recently both scholarly and popular discussions of the catastrophic famine in the Soviet Union in 1931-1933 invariably have described it as an artificial or"man-
made"famine. Certain well-known scholars have dominated this discussion, expressing
two main interpretations of the famine. A Ukrainian nationalist interpretation holds that the Soviet regime,and specifically Iosif Stalin,intentionally imposed famine to suppress the nationalist aspirations of Ukraine and Ukrainians; revisionists argue that
the leadership imposed the famine to suppress more widespread peasant resistance to
collectivization. According To These Views, a natural disaster that could have caused a
famine did not take place in thoseyears.1
While the intentionalist interpretation of the famine remains widely held,recent
research has cast substantial doubt on them. Several Studies And Document Collections
Have shown conclusively that the famine did not stop at Ukraine's borders,but affected
rural and urban areas throughout the Sovie tUnion,and even the military.' Studies
based on this evidence, and on a reevaluation of published Sovietstatistics, have
shown that the grain harvests of 1931 and 1932must have been much smaller than
officially acknowledged. As tables 1and2show, what the regime called"net grain
marketings" from the 1932harvest-the amounts of grain removed from the villages,
including government procurement sand estimated private private sales by peasants, minus
the seed, food,and fodder aid returned farms-approximated 13.7million tons.”
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A
“The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933”
mariosousa.se/LiesconcerningthehistoryoftheSovietUnion.html
“There is a direct historical link running from: Hitler to Hearst, to Conquest, to Solzhenitsyn. In 1933 political change took place in Germany that were to leave their mark on world history for decades to come. “
More Tauger notes on soviet industrialisation
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668130801999912?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Paywall - abstract “Recent advances in research on the 1932–1933 Soviet famine, most notably the monograph by R. W. Davies and S. G. Wheatcroft [2004, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan)], have generated a debate, involving Michael Ellman and Mark Tauger, on the pages of this journal. The present essay re-examines this debate in two areas: intentionality (did Stalin cause the famine in order to kill millions?) and the Ukrainian factor (was the famine a Ukrainian ethnic genocide?). I argue that there is not enough evidence to answer in the affirmative. The essay concludes by discussing the international context of the famine as a factor of critical importance.”
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n02/j.-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine
“There is, incidentally, no doubt about responsibility for the disaster. Stalin must be primarily answerable as the leading advocate of excessive demands on the peasantry and the prime backer of hard-line collectivisation. But there is plenty of blame to go around. It must be shared by the tens of thousands of activists and officials who carried out the policy and by the peasants who chose to slaughter animals, burn fields and boycott cultivation in protest. Beyond fixing blame, however, the tempting conclusion of intentionality is unwarranted: the case for a purposeful famine is weakly supported by the evidence and relies on a very strained interpretation of it.
Conquest’s argument for a planned genocidal famine in 1932 runs as follows. Stalin had been informed by Ukrainian Bolsheviks, and therefore knew that his proposed grain requisitions would produce disaster. Later, when he knew what was happening there, he maintained his course because he regarded famine as a political weapon. The USSR’s strategic military food reserves were not committed to the Ukraine and its borders were sealed to prevent mass flight from and diversion of food to the Ukraine. According to Conquest, these measures constitute genocide. At first glance, the case seems convincing. Why otherwise would Stalin have set his demands so high? Why did the Ukraine have to be sealed off?
Yet there are reasons why the majority of scholars have so far rejected the theory. First, we actually know very little about the scale of the famine. Using census calculations of excess mortality, Conquest arrives at a figure of some five million victims of the Ukrainian famine. Yet such respected economic and demographic experts as S.G. Wheatcroft, Barbara Anderson and Brian Silver have examined the same census data and have suggested that the numbers Conquest supports are much too high. Additionally, Conquest notes that the famine varied greatly from place to place in the Ukraine. According to post-World War Two interviews with Ukrainian émigrés, some places saw little or no shortage of food. What regional or local differences could explain this? Were grain quotas arbitrarily set by local officials? Did high levels of peasant resistance or boycott contribute to famine? We do not know.
Second, Conquest has failed to establish a convincing motive for genocide. Certainly Stalin was capable of vindictive cruelty and cold-hearted repression, but those who knew and dealt with him during the war and after, and they include many Westerners, agree that he was not insane or irrational. Although he certainly meant to break peasant resistance to his brand of socialism, one must wonder why any national leader would deliberately imperil the country’s survival, its military strength and thus his own security, by methodically setting out to exterminate those who produced the food – and then stopping short of completing the presumed genocide. One can, of course, minimise the importance of these considerations. Maybe we do not need direct evidence for genocide, maybe a circumstantial case will do. Perhaps the famine was of the magnitude Conquest claims; maybe Stalin was insane. Even so, our knowledge of the sources suggests that a genocidal Stalin is unnecessary to explain the events of the famine as we know them. More convincing explanations can be advanced if we consider elements of the ideology, administrative practice and political sociology of early Stalinism.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMBJ_nQ4sTA&feature=youtu.be
Did Stalin continue to export grain as Ukraine starved - Hakim
Sources Sources:
http://www.garethjones.org/tottlefrau...
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/art...
PROHIBITED IMPORTS. - (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, April 19. - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) - 21 Apr 1933
http://avr.org.ua/index.php/Ust/169/?a=1
The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia - Volume 5, The Years of Hunger Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933
UK’s Gold Standard Act 1925
The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945 by R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, S. G. Wheatcroft, p.204.
Stalin, Grain Stocks, and the Famine of 1932-1933 by R.W.Davies, M.B. Tauger and S.G. Wheatcroft
Crisis: How it is Organized by N. V. Starikov
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ia...
http://web.mit.edu/17.601/www/grain_e...
The Theory, Law, and Policy of Soviet Treaties By Jan F. Triska, Robert M. Slusser
An Economic History of the USSR by Alexander Nove
sovietinfo.tripod.com/WCR-Ukraine_Famine.pdf
history.org.ua/LiberUA/FamineInUSSR_2009/FamineInUSSR_2009.pdf
http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/re...
http://online.eastview.com/projects/t...
The Archive of the President of the Russian Federation - Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/F...
Mark B. Tauger, Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–33,The Carl Beck Papers in Russian & East European Studies, # 1506, 2001
СССР в цифрах ЦУНХУ Госплана СССР. Москва 1935, page 585
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUO7_SiJCpw
“Food Shortages and Starvation under the USSR” - Tovarishch Endymion
Sources
Goal of the first 5 year plan (More heavy industy, less light industry): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consume...
Gorbachev's Capitalist reforms in the USSR: http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-...
Restoration of Capitalism within the Soviet Union: http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/book/u...
My Life in the USSR/Soviet Union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2lT...
Starvation and capitalism: http://www.poverty.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXFXdOz_8Q
Holodomor series part 1 - Use of Fraudulent Photos
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SOURCES:
All scans of newspaper articles can be found here:
- http://www.garethjones.org/sitemap.xml
List of sources:
- http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/sara/oddments/russianfamine/
- http://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_ir/cgiirbis_64.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=ELIB&P21DBN=ELIB&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=online_book&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=FF=&S21STR=00003367
- http://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/E_LIB/00003525/#1
- http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/287525401/la-famine-en-russie-de-docteur-nansen.html
- https://www.trivia-library.com/c/fake-newspaper-stories-severe-crop-failure-in-soviet-union.htm
- http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/640598?list_url=%2Flist%2Fnew%2520york%2520times%3Fpage%3D63
- http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/picturedisplay.asp?linkpath=pic%5CF%5CA%5CFamine%201921_22%20victim.jpg&page=pages%5CF%5CA%5CFamine.htm&id=3330&pid=3199&tyt=Famine&key=Famine
- James Creelman in Pearson's Weekly, September 1906.
- Thomas Walker, "6,000,000 Starve to Death in Russia"; "Children Starve Among Soviet Dead"; "Bodies of Soviet Famine Victims Robbed"; "Soviet Drafts Men, Starves Women"; "Starvation Wipes Out Soviet Villages"; New York Evening Journal, February 18, 19, 21, 25, 27, 1935 respectively.
- Louis Fischer, "Hearst's Russian Famine," The Nation, Vol. 140, No. 3636, March 13, 1935.
- Daily Worker, July 12-15, 1935., July 20, 1935., Daily Worker, June 8, 1935., Daily Worker, February 21, 1935., Daily Worker, July 20, 1935., Daily Worker, May 21, 1935., Daily Worker, April 23 and May 16, 1935
- New York American, March 3, 1935.
- New York Times, July 16, 1935., New York Times, February 10, 1935.
- Among the many publications which use Walker's fraudulent materials as historical proof are: "The Soviet Famine of 1932-1934" by Dana Dalrymple, Soviet Studies, January 1964; The Ninth Circle by Olexa Woropay, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1983; The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Unknown Holocaust, Ukrainian National Association (USA), 1983; 50 Years Ago: The Famine Holocaust in Ukraine — Terror and Human Misery as Instruments of Soviet Russian Imperialism by Walter Dushnyck, 1983; Witness: Memoirs of the Famine of 1933 in Ukraine by Pavlo Makohon, Anabasis, 1983; Human Life in Russia by Ewald Ammende, John T. Zubal, 1984 (reprint of the 1936 edition); Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest, University of Alberta Press, 1986; Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933: A Memorial Exhibition prepared by Oksana Procyk, Leonid Heretz and James E. Mace, Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Harvard College Library, 1986.
- John Gunther, Inside Europe, New York, Harper Bros., 1936, P. 179.
- Philip Foner, The Fur and Leather Workers Union, Newark, Nordan Press, 1950, pp. 106-107., pp. 194-195., p. 439.
- New York Evening Journal, April 17, 18, 20, 22, 23 and April 15, 1935 respectively. Lang's cannibalism tales live on in such books as The Soviet Revolution 1917-1939 by Raphael Abramovitch, New York, International Universities Press, 1962 (p. 345).
- Socialist Call, April 1935.
- Forward, April 18, 1935.
- The Nation, May 8, 1935., The Nation, March 13, 1935., The Nation, June 26, 1935.
- Harvey Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade, New York, Bask Books, 1984, p. 440.
-Globe and Mail, March 23, 1947.
- Fred Beal, Foreign Workers in a Soviet Tractor Plant, 1933, pp. 49-50.
- Fred Beal, Proletarian Journey, New York, Hilman-Curl, 1937, p. 247., p. 279., p. 280, p. 305, p. 310, p. 350.
- "Hungerhoelle Sowjetrussland - Das Massensterben in Sowjet 'Paradies' ", Voelkischer Beobachter (Berlin), August 18, 1933.
- Voelkischer Beobachter, January 25, 1935.
- Ewald Ammende, Muss Russland Hungern?, Vienna, Wilhelm Brau-muller, 1935.
- Ewald Ammende, Human Life in Russia, Cleveland, John T. Zubal, 1984.
Eg. Berliner Tageblatt, Koelnische Zeitung, Nordschleswigsche Zeitung, Nation and Staat, etc. (Nazi Germany); Osservatore Romano (Vatican); various Ukrainian Nationalist journals such as Dilo and America, as well as various pro-Nazi Volksdeutsche papers outside of Germany proper.
- Ammende (here and after reference is to Human Life in Russia), p. 22., p. viii., p. 22., p. 23., Ammende, p. 23., opposite p. 64, p. 82., the photos opposite the title page, pp. 64, 129, p. 161 (bottom)., Ammende, opposite p. 65 (right)., Ammende, p. 23., opposite p. 224 (bottom).
- Peter Ustinov's Russia, Part 5: War and Revolution.
- La Famine en Russie, Album Illustre, Livraison No. 1, Geneva, Cornice Russe de Secours aux Affames en Russie, 1922 (in French and Russian), p. 10.
- The Black Deeds of the Kremlin, Volume H, The Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, Detroit, DOBRUS, 1955, p. 436.
- Rev. Isidore Nahayewsky, History of Ukraine, 2nd enlarged and supplemented edition, Philadelphia, America Publishing House of Providence Association of Ukrainian Catholics in America, 1975.
- Walter Dushnyck, 50 Years Ago: The Famine Holocaust in Ukraine -Terror and Human Misery as Instruments of Soviet Russian Imperialism, New York and Toronto, World Congress of Free Ukrainians, 1983, p. 36.
- Ammende, opposite p. 128 (top), opposite p. 193, two photos opposite p.
- Dana Dalrymple, "The Soviet Famine of 1932-1934," Soviet Studies, January 1964; Wasyl Hrushko, The Ukrainian Holocaust, Toronto, Bahryany Foundation, 1983.
- The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Unknown Holocaust, New Jersey, Ukrainian National Association, 1983. This book is illustrated entirely with famine photographs plagiarized from the World War I to 1921-1922 Russian famine era. For example, the book's cover consists of a photo plagiarized from Dr. F. Nansen's International Committee for Russian Relief, Information No. 22, Geneva, April 30, 1922, p. 6. The photo on page 73 (bottom) comes from the same 1922 bulletin (p. 19).
- Alfred Laubenheimer, Und du Siehst die Sowjets Richtig: Berichte von deutschen rind auslaendischen "Spezialisten" aus der Sowjet Union, 2nd revised edition, Berlin and Leipzig, Nibelungen Verlag, 1937.
- Ammende, p. 23. 30. Ibid., pp. 274-275., Ammende, pp. 13, 17.
Note from Douglas Tottle's book, Fraud, Famine and Fascism: "This author compared so-called Ukrainian famine photos of 1932-1933 with hundreds of photos of wartime and post-war destitution and epidemic scenes from 1918 to the early 1920s found in anthologies and documentaries. See, for example, Ernst Friedrich, War Against War, Berlin, Freijugend, 1925. This author concludes that most of the "famine" photos bear a closer technical affinity to photos of this earlier period. Some "1932-1933" photos are of such crude quality and depict such antiquated scenes that an even earlier period of origin is suggested."
I strongly recommend Tottle's book for even more details on this particular topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEi7v2TMpQ
Why the Holodomor Narrative is Wrong - Hakim
Sources
https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=UkFlO7hoxOMC&pg=PA194&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/History#ref404577
https://www.climatechangepost.com/turkey/droughts/
http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_26.php cyrillic language
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
“When discussing the merits and achievements of the Soviet Union, detractors of various stripes, from anti-communist to anti-Leninist, often point to a 2013 International Business Times article named “How Many People Did Joseph Stalin Kill?” by Palash Ghosh. The article, which depicts Soviet leader J. V. Stalin as an inhuman cold-blooded mass murderer, claims that up to 60 million people, nearly one-third of the USSR’s 1941 population, were killed on the part of the government and the leadership of the country.1 2 But do these figures actually hold up? Through a careful read of the article, one can find glaring problems with the logic and the conclusion and deduce that the article is not much more than crude propaganda.”
“The only two major events listed where there are mass deaths are the 1932-1933 Ukrainian famine, which is listed as “artificial” and thus blamed on Stalin and the Communist Party, and the 1937-1938 Great Terror which is also blamed on Stalin. While both events did occur in the 1930s, the nature of the events is up for question. There is firm evidence that the 1932 famine had natural causes, as it was preceded by several other famines in the early 20th century and, over the course of a year, ended with the onset of collectivization. Contrary to being Ukraine’s only major famine or the first famine, the “Holodomor” was actually the last famine of its kind.4 The death toll is disputed, with a reasonable estimate being 1-2 million people. As for the Great Terror, it is most likely true that nearly a million people were killed, many of whom being innocent. These killings, however, may have been part of a plot against the Soviet leadership rather than a plot by it, as the loyalty of the NKVD leadership to the Soviet government was questionable.5 Even if both of these events were on Stalin’s informed orders and resulted in the maximum death tolls alleged by this historian, the total would be at 8 million people, less than half the original claim of 20 million. In fact, a total of 20 million can only be reached by assuming that all of the people arrested, imprisoned, sent to camps and exiled were later killed on Stalin’s orders, which would require absolute and incontrovertible proof. Since the burden of proof lies on those making the claim and yet this proof is not shown, there is very little reason to believe the claim that 20 million people died.”
https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/stop-spreading-nazi-propaganda/
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/famine-of-1932/
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/vv.html
“In Search of a Soviet holocaust”
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201510191028730561-holodomor-hoax-invented-hitler-west/
The roots of the famine-genocide propaganda campaign lay in a series of articles written by "noted journalist, traveller and student of Russian affairs" Thomas Walker for the Hearst press in 1935. The articles described the horrific famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine, while photographs, accompanying the stories, portrayed desperate victims of the famine.
The material and the photographs were truly impressive, but, as it turned out later "noted" journalist Thomas Walker had never visited Ukraine in 1932-1933, furthermore, he never existed.
As for the photographs, US investigative journalists revealed in 1935 that some of them were taken in war-torn areas of Europe just after the First World War, others depicted the Volga famine victims of 1921-1922 in Russia.
Tottle pointed out that American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst had no scruples about publishing fabricated reports.
"Not only were the photographs a fraud, the trip to Ukraine a fraud, and Hearst's famine-genocide series a fraud, Thomas Walker himself was a fraud," the Canadian researcher narrated.
"However, the Walker famine photographs are truly remarkable in that, having been exposed as utter hoaxes over fifty years ago, they continue to be used by Ukrainian Nationalists and university propaganda institutes as evidence of alleged genocide," Tottle noted in 1987, and remarkably, nothing has changed since then.
In fact it was not Hearst who launched the famine-genocide campaign: the press mogul had powerful allies — German and Italian fascists.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/31/the-ukrainian-famine-only-evidence-can-disclose-the-truth/
http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/stalin/losurdo-en-20180311.html#heading49
Chapter 5.4
We start to see clearly how fragile and manipulative the correspondence established between the Holomodor and the “final solution” is. Hitler and the other Nazi leaders proclaimed the necessity of annihilating of the Jews explicitly and repeatedly, comparing them to a bacteria, a virus, a pathogen, whose extermination would allow society to regain its health. It would be useless to seek similar statements from the Soviet leaders regarding the Ukrainian (or Jewish) people. It may be interesting to directly compare the policies of Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s Germany towards Ukraine. Hitler proclaimed on numerous occasions that the Ukrainians, like all “subject races”, should be kept away from culture and education; it was also necessary to destroy their historical memory, it was important that they not even know how to “read and write”614. And that was not all: 80–90 percent of the local population could be “dispensed with”615. Above all, the intellectual strata could and should be dispensed with, entirely. Their liquidation was the necessary condition for transforming the subject race into a hereditary caste of slaves or semi-slaves, destined to work and to die working in the service of the master race. The Nazi program was detailed further by Himmler: they would immediately eliminate the Jews (whose presence was relevant in the intellectual classes) and reduce to a “minimum” the total Ukrainian population in order to pave the way for “future German colonization”. In this way, comments the historian previously quoted, “Nazi empire-building” would go hand in hand with the “Holocaust” in Ukraine as well; contributing to this were the same Ukrainian nationalists who constituted the main sources for Conquest’s book and would later be his principal propagandists616.
Compared to the Third Reich, the Soviet government was moving in exactly the opposite direction. We are familiar with the policy of affirmative action promoted by the Soviet government towards national minorities and Ukrainian “brothers and comrades”, to quote the words used by Stalin immediately after the October Revolution617. Indeed, the person who most decisively promoted affirmative action for the Ukrainian people was precisely the person who is today considered responsible for the Holomodor. In 1921, he rejected the view of those for whom “the Ukrainian Republic and the Ukrainian nation were inventions of the Germans. It is obvious, however, that there is a Ukrainian nation, and it is the duty of the Communists to develop its culture”618. From these premises developed the “Ukrainization” of culture, the schools, the press, the publishing world, party cadres, and the state apparatus. The realization of this policy was given special impetus by Lazar Kaganovich, a confidant of Stalin who became secretary of the party in Ukraine in March 1925619. The results were not slow to follow: in 1931, publication of books in Ukrainian “reached its peak with 6,218 titles of 8,086, almost 77%”, while “the percentage of Russians in the party, about 72% in 1922, had fallen to 52%”. It is also necessary to bear in mind the development of the Ukrainian industrial apparatus, the need for which was insisted on by, once again, Stalin620.
“To summarize, the sources for the famine-genocide myth are the presses of Hitler-admirer William Randolph Hearst and propaganda from Nazi Germany. The initial Hearst campaign began with a man calling himself Thomas Walker, who claimed to have visited Ukraine and documented a famine (and providing photos). A few months later, the Hearst press began broadcasting stories about a famine which had killed 6 million people in Soviet Ukraine. Noting numerous discrepancies in Walker’s story, a reporter for The Nation named Louis Fischer investigated, and found that “Walker” was an escaped convict and career criminal named Robert Green, who entered the USSR in 1934, spent a week in Moscow, traveled to Manchuria, and then left, while never coming within hundreds of miles of the Ukraine. Tottle points out that the Walker photos used in publications pushing the genocide myth can be traced to Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary during the First World War, and the famine that resulted from the White Terror during the Russian Civil War. Many are obviously doctored or of dubious provenance. “Walker’s fake photographs are the most prominently displayed pictorial ‘evidence’ associated with post-war famine-genocide campaigns, despite the fact that this material was exposed as fraudulent immediately following its release in 1935.” However, “Despite the Thomas Walker fiasco, Hearst did not give up his famine-genocide campaign—it was part and parcel of his overall propagation of anti-Soviet, pro-fascist views.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/
Proyect cites Jeff Coplon’s 1988 Village Voice article “In Search of a Soviet Holocaust: A 55-Year-Old Famine Feeds the Right.” In it Coplon shows that the leading “mainstream” anticommunist Western experts on Soviet history rejected any notion of a deliberate famine aimed at Ukrainians. They still reject it. Proyect fails to mention this fact.
There was a very serious famine in the USSR, including (but not limited to) the Ukrainian SSR, in 1932-33. But there has never been any evidence of a “Holodomor” or “deliberate famine,” and there is none today.
The “Holodomor” fiction was invented in by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who found havens in Western Europe, Canada, and the USA after the war. An early account is Yurij Chumatskij, Why Is One Holocaust Worth More Than Others? published in Australia in 1986 by “Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army” this work is an extended attack on “Jews” for being too pro-communist