Blood Lies: The Evidence that
Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy
Snyder's Bloodlands Is False
by Grover Furr
(ISBN: 978-0-692-20099-5)
BLOOD LIES: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin
and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands" Is False. PLUS:
What really happened in the famine of 1932-33; the "Polish Operation";
the "Great Terror"; the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; the "Soviet invasion
of Poland"; the "Katyn Massacre"; the Warsaw Uprising; and "Stalin's
Anti-Semitism".
"Bloodlands. Europe Between Hitler and Stalin," by Timothy Snyder (N.Y:
Basic Books, 2010) is by far the most successful attempt to date
to equate Stalin with Hitler, the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. It
has received dozens of rave reviews, prizes for historiography; and has
been translated into 25 languages.
Snyder's main target is Joseph Stalin. His broader claim is that the
Soviets killed 6 to 9 million innocent civilians while the Nazis were
killing about 14 million. Snyder finds parallels between Soviet and
Nazi crimes at every turn.
Grover Furr methodically checked every single footnote to anything that
could be construed as a crime by Stalin, the USSR, or pro-Soviet
communists. Snyder's main sources are in Polish and Ukrainian, in
hard-to-find books and articles. Many sources are reprinted in Blood
Lies in their original languages – Polish, Ukrainian, German, Russian –
always with English translations.
Furr has found that every single "crime" Snyder alleges is false – a
fabrication. Often Snyder's sources do not say what he claims. Often
Snyder cites anticommunist Polish and Ukrainian secondary sources that
do the lying for him. Not a single accusation holds up.
Blood Lies exposes the lies and falsehoods behind Soviet history of the
Stalin period with the same meticulous attention to detail as Furr's
2011 work "Khrushchev Lied," and his 2013 book "The Murder of Sergei
Kirov."
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