Thread by @AthinaPsyopped

Timothy Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’ is ‘propaganda with footnotes’. I’ve only read a tenth of the book, but I can already tell that Grover Furr’s 600-page riposte to Snyder’s pathetic effort is a banger!
mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/grover…

‘The reader is evidently supposed to assume that a full professor of history at Yale University, as Snyder is, would cite his sources honestly, and therefore assume that Snyder does in fact have evidence to support the claims he makes in his text.’ #Bloodlands

‘The notion of a ‘deliberate famine’ or ‘Holodomor’ was invented by pro-Nazi, anticommunist Ukrainian nationalists after World War II.’ #Bloodlands

‘None of the many Ukrainian nationalist or anticommunist researchers who proclaim that Stalin deliberately starved the Ukraine has ever produced any evidence to support this claim. Of course Snyder, who is not a specialist in this field…has not produced any such evidence either’

‘Snyder conceals the fact that Stalin et al. shipped large quantities of food grains to the Ukraine in June 1932. This fact alone is fatal to his ‘deliberate starvation’ thesis: one does not ship food to those whom one wishes to starve.’ #Bloodlands #Holodomor

On ‘slave labour’ and Snyder’s claim that ‘collective farming did not work’: ‘Like it or not—and Snyder obviously doesn’t—collective farming put an end to the age-old cycle of famines. The collective farms ‘worked’ until the end of the USSR when they were forcibly dissolved.’