Post by Odin of Ossetia on Nov 4, 2010 22:01:58 GMT -5
Collectivization and the so-called "Ukrainian Holocaust"
(go to point #7, and please ignore the silly mis-guided pro-Castro rant in the introduction)
www.red-channel.de/books/trot.htm
And it is granted by the hand of he who bedazzled you., Dec 30 2005
By David Chirko (Sudbury, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fraud, famine and fascism: The Ukrainian genocide myth from Hitler to Harvard (Paperback)
Before I review the work in question, let me first say that back on April 27, 1983, Bob McKeown of CBC TV's "The Fifth Estate" program did a one-sided story, produced by Oleh Rumak, on the alleged 1932-3 famine in Ukraine, entitled "The Ukrainian Famine." During 1988, when speaking with visiting, paternal relatives--though of Belarusan/Polish ancestry, but residents of that area, I was apprised that no such famine during these, albeit trying, times ever took place. Incidentally, my aforementioned relatives are practising Christians with no pro-Communist ties.
Let me also add that a reliable source regarding the famine issue is an article by Ann Elwood, named, "(9.) Severe Crop Failure In Soviet Union [from] Hearst newspapers, 1935" under "9 Memorable Newspaper Stories That Never Happened" of Chapter 10. "Communications" in "The People's Almanac #3" by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1981, page 420). It explains how the "famine" was really a newspaper hoax concocted by the anti-Soviet, anti-semitic and very powerful publishing magnate, William Randolph Hearst, who, through the services of forgerer, ex-jailbird from a Colorado state prison, and self-styled reporter, Robert Green--alias Thomas Walker, utilized a series of photographs from the 1921 Volga famine to create the illusion of mass starvation in Ukraine (where he never set foot in), in the 1930's. Regardless of the factual aspect of a scenario Hearst wished to distort, he was once quoted as saying, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Lindsay Parrot, foreign correspondent, spoke elsewhere in the same Hearst newspapers (if and when it was allowed to be printed) of the abundant harvest in Ukraine!
Space doesn't permit me to cover all of the enlightening points in Douglas Tottle's "Fraud, Famine and Fascism" book. However, I'll start by saying it is a landmark volume that debunks the famine myth by elaborating on how the Hearst misinformation campaign evolved in the 1930's, in conjunction with publications by Hitler's Nazis, who, in 1934, acceded to buying world news from Hearst's International News Service. This presaged the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (who some did not want in the League of Nations, either). The campaign was later developed during the Cold War by Ukrainian Nationalist post World War II emigrants, some of whom fill posts in North American universitys' East European studies departments, using their spurious scholarship to cover up atrocities they committed earlier in their homeland, and who accuse the "Jewish state apparatus" and Soviets of masterminding the "famine." Of note here is Yurij Chumatskyj's anti-semitic work, "Why Is One Holocaust Worth More Than Others?" (Lidcombe, Australia: Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 1986), which Tottle examines.
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. 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.
www.amazon.ca/Fraud-famine-fascism-Ukrainian-genocide/dp/0919396518
Fraud, Famine, and Fascim
The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard
by Douglas Tottle
rationalrevolution.net/special/library/famine.htm