Aquí podéis leer una critica muy favorable en Amazon de del último libro de Grover Furr,"Blood lies" y la verificación que Timothy snyder es un propagandista yankee del fascismo.
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Timothy Snyder - Scholar and Fascist Propagandist
By Otto Hempel on March 13, 2015
I read Blood Lies with an open mind in view of the mainstream position that Stalin was a murderous totalitarian dictator, now found in Timothy Snyder's Blood Lines. I was taken by surprise by the substantial evidence marshalled in Blood Lies that this consensus opinion proffered repeatedly by scholars and the media is severely flawed. Through a careful and meticulous historical analysis of authoritative texts and documents Grover Furr demolishes what seems to be a deliberate effort by Professor Snyder to fabricate the evidence to support the recent claims by Ukranian nationalists that the famines in the USSR from 1928-1932 were intended by the Soviet government. While Mark Tauber and leading scholars have concluded that the famine was a result of natural causes Snyder arbitrarily ignores this evidence to build his claim that the Holomodor was equivalent to the Nazi Holocaust, and Stalin was even more cruel than Hitler. The latter claim is a revisionist perspective which is part of an ongoing campaign by fascists, especially Ukranian, Polish, and Eastern European nationalists. In his review of every reference in Blood Lines, Furr exposes Snyder's calculated agenda, supported by his adoring acolytes to distort the archival and historical record. In this way, Snyder provides intellectual justification and fuel for the resurgence of ethno-centricism, xenophobia, and national chauvinism in Eastern Europe and North America. That the Canadian government is erecting a monument to the "victims of Communism" in Ottawa is testament to the political agenda that celebrates Nazism and transforms fascists into innocent subjects of genocide.
At best, Snyder, an acclaimed Yale history professor, failed to check the accuracy or even the page numbers of his citations in Ukrainian and Polish texts and never researched Russian language accounts of the era. Why is Snyder so eager to engage in a transparently revisionist history without documentary evidence? This recapitulation even breaks with the consenus among leading historians and galvanizes the position of known fascist revisionists. Why does Snyder cite pages in books without evidence or lacking in any relevance to his contentions about Stalin and the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s? Is there a larger agenda? Without a doubt Snyder has succeeded in fomenting fascist sympathies throughout Europe which will lead to xenophobia and bloodshed. This position is now welcomed by conservatives, libeals, and even many leftists!
Furr's countervailing evidence is based on detailed and precise reading and fact-checking of Snyder's 'fact-claims' found in the same sources. If Snyder is a serious scholar, he is duty-bound to respond to the charge that he has deliberately distorted the facts and that every claim about Stalin's mis-deeds is false. Furr's painstaking research is the most advanced effort to correct the recent efforts to revise history for political gain. Serious scholars are pouring through recently opened archival documents and arriving at a conclusion that the Soviet Union and Stalin were protecting peasants and urban workers against starvation before the war and defending inhabitants throughout the region from fascism. Furr provides the most accurate account of the Katyn massacre of Polish soldiers by German Nazis, not the Soviet Union. If nothing else, Furr's critique of Blood Lines is an object lesson for us all about the importance of accurate citations and careful archival research. Both books should be read side-by-side by academics and graduate students in modern history.
Ultimately while we all may take sides based on our own Weltanschauung, Grover Furr sends a cautionary message to all scholars that oral history and accounts provided by protagonists in conflicts are not alone sufficient to prove one's case. By doing so, Furr uncovers the fiction in Blood Lines that calls into question all of Snyder's books. I am reminded of the children's party game 'Telephone' where a secret message is whispered into a one's ear; and then on to the next person, and beyond. By the end, the story bears no resemblance to the original account. In like manner, through use of oral history, Stalin's collectivization of farms is turned into Stalin's Holomodor forced starvation of peasants! In this case, Snyder undermines his own conclusions by turning Stalin into a fictional character. For me, Furr's book is not about Communism, Fascism, or Capitalism, but accuracy and attention to the historical record.
Will Snyder respond to Furr and tell us where he has come up with his evidence? I doubt it as Furr has already shown us precisely where all Snyder's 'fact-claims' are buried. Please read this book and draw your own conclusions. There is nothing to gain but the truth
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