The Holodomor Hoax: Joseph Stalin’s Crime That Never Took Place
Playing into the hands of Ukrainian nationalists, a monument to the so-called Ukrainian “Holodomor,” one the 20th century’s most famous myths and vitriolic pieces of anti-Soviet Propaganda, has been erected in the US capital.
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]emarkably, the roots of the “Holodomor” (“deliberate starvation”) myth lie in the longstanding Cold War standoff between Soviet Russia and the West. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, infamous Nazi collaborators — members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and their paramilitary UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) units — fled into Western Europe and the United States, escaping punishment for their hideous crimes, including ruthless terror against peaceful Jewish, Ukrainian and Russian civilians.
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In 1949 the CIA and the US State Department sponsored the OUN-UPA leaders’ immigration to the United States, planning to use them as subversion groups and intelligence agents in the Cold War against the Soviet Russia.
Hearst’s papers played the hoax big. This is the Chicago American version.
The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths.” However, this fact had not prevented the CIA from recruiting the former Nazi collaborator.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he CIA believed that Ukrainian nationalism could be used as an efficient cold war weapon.While the Ukrainian nationalists provided Washington with valuable information about its Cold War rivals, the CIA in return was placing the nationalist veterans into positions of influence and authority, helping them to create semi-academic institutions or academic positions in existing universities. By using these formal and informal academic networks, the Ukrainian nationalists had been disseminating anti-Russian propaganda, creating myths and re-writing history at the same time whitewashing the wartime crimes of OUN-UPA. “In 1987 the film “Harvest of Despair” was made. It was the beginning of the ‘Holodomor’ movement. The film was entirely funded by Ukrainian nationalists, mainly in Canada. A Canadian scholar, Douglas Tottle (1), exposed the fact that the film took photographs from the 1921-22 ‘Volga famine’ and used them to illustrate the 1932-33 famine. Tottle later wrote a book, ‘Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard,‘ about the phony ‘Holodomor’ issue,” Professor Furr elaborated.
© PHOTO: EMBASSY OF UKRAINE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
American historian Professor Mark B. Tauger, West Virginia University, carried out thorough research on the famine of 1932-33 in the USSR, and came to the conclusion that the disaster was due to environmental circumstances and was evidently not related to the Soviet policy in the region.
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933.”
Tauger stressed that climatic conditions played the main role in the famine of 1932-33.
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ADDENDUM
[box] And it is granted by the hand of he who bedazzled you
My only peeve with this superlative book is that it lacks an index–which would be most helpful. Tottle’s book is mandatory reading for those seeking verisimilitude regarding William Randolph Hearst’s yellow journalism and anti-semitic, famine propaganda campaign folklore. To conclude, I will say that I am not Left on the political spectrum. I know that Stalin sent many of his opponents to the Gulags–or had them murdered outright. However, he did not deliberately have starved to death millions of Ukrainians in 1932-3. Douglas Tottle’s “Fraud, Famine and Fascism” amply proves this. Read it and remember: propaganda is insidiously seductive and it is granted by the hand of he who bedazzled you.
FACT TO REMEMBER:
IF THE WESTERN MEDIA HAD ITS PRIORITIES IN ORDER AND ACTUALLY INFORMED, EDUCATED AND UPLIFTED THE MASSES INSTEAD OF SHILLING FOR A GLOBAL EMPIRE OF ENDLESS WARS, OUTRAGEOUS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, AND DEEPENING DEVASTATION OF NATURE AND THE ANIMAL WORLD, HORRORS LIKE THESE WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED MANY YEARS, PERHAPS DECADES AGO. EVERY SINGLE DAY SOCIAL BACKWARDNESS COLLECTS ITS OWN INNUMERABLE VICTIMS.