Been seeing a lot of people coming in here handwringing about 'red fash' and 'muh authoritarianism.'
Figuring that this will be a common occurrence for a while, so wanted to make a collective thread here. The purpose of this is to just have one spot as so we don't fill up the comm with a ton of posts about it.
Post away, comrades!
The only claim regarding the 1930s famine that you need to combat is the claim that it was a genocide. Historians J.Arch Getty, Mark Tauger, and even the conservative anti-communist Robert Conquest don't believe it to be a genocide.
Here's Mark Tauger's review of Applebaum's book on the Holodomor:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169438
Here's stuff about the way the "holodomor genocide" narrative about the 1930s famine has its roots in holocaust-denial:
https://spme.org/spme-research/analysis/clemens-heni-the-prague-declaration-antisemitism-with-a-democratic-face/7822/
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory
All your links here are going on my reading list for the weekend! I know they're not that long, but I just want to make sure that I can take the time to take notes when I'm reading. Appreciate it!