Grover Furr: ‘Stalin, waiting for… the truth’, Part-1

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by Grover Furr

As usual, the invaluable Grover Furr wades into the thick and fetid pools of anticommunist fabrication to destroy many of the myths underscoring the fear and loathing of all things connected with Stalin. Intelligent people have long understood that the West's deliberate demonisation of Stalin was and remains a permanent psyop to keep people corraled away from examining the promise of communism. The alarms about Stalin's "crimes" is a case of stunning hypocrisy. For one thing, a country like the US or Britain or France who have trained death squads for generations, who have meddled across the globe, invariably on the side of tyrants, exploiters of every stripe, and plutocrats, have no right to pretend being shocked by the "crimes of Stalin". (Or Mao, for that matter, or Fidel, all members of that club that Washington always has in store to serve as bogeymen when anti-communist hysteria is required—which unfortunately is almost all the time. )

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Historian Grover Furr has demolished the Anti-Stalin paradigm in his new book published in March 2019 by Red Star Publishers, New York, N.Y. The book examines all of the major claims of Stalin's "crimes" as alleged in Steven Kotkin's biography of Stalin Volume-2 (2017), titled: 'Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941'; which can be described as the compendium of Anti-Stalin accusations level against Stalin, which Leon Trotsky started in 1932 and which Nikita Khrushchev's "secret" speech in 1956 gave a great boost. It became so entrenched in the US academic, literary and mass media circles that even a very significant part of the Left in the US today accepts many of these claims as the truth of history. Furr shows by an impeccable materialist analysis based on evidence that these claims have no credibility. Furr has put the Preface to his book online on his university, url: https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/r.... It is so that you can read it and get an idea of what his book.

—The Editor, The Greanville Post