Joseph Ball (a veteran apologist of #Mao and #PolPot - http://www.maoists.org/) back in 2010 ran defense for Grover Furr citing a distorted version of an 'interview' with Hajime Sugiyama - #Japan's Minister of War in 1937. An alleged statement that "In #Russia there exist elements in opposition to the present government and it is through them that we know" was altered to say "the Trotskyist elements in the Soviet Union".
#Stalinapologetics #Stalin
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/02/issue.html

Joseph Ball (a veteran apologist of #Mao and #PolPot - http://www.maoists.org/) back in 2010 ran defense for Grover Furr citing a distorted version of an 'interview' with Hajime Sugiyama - #Japan's Minister of War in 1937. An alleged statement that "In #Russia there exist elements in opposition to the present government and it is through them that we know" was altered to say "the Trotskyist elements in the Soviet Union".
#Stalinapologetics #Stalin
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/03/02/issue.html

Grover Furr and Sven-Eric Holmström allege that the Trotsky #Harvard archive was “purged” of explicit material that would implicate Trotsky in terrorism.

Their source is J Arch Getty who inconclusively suggested materials might have been "removed". Getty also made a more careless statement in his book "Origins of the Great Purges". By 1999 he stated that these materials were simply not preserved. So they have no conclusive evidence that the archive was “purged”.
#Stalin #Stalinapologetics

Grover Furr has made extensive use of Valentin Astrov’s (Валентин Астров) 1937 “confessions” regularly claiming that he had “explicitly refused” to “retract” his testimony in the 1980s and 1990s. However, Astrov told #Soviet rehabilitation officials that his testimony was “fictitious and dictated by #NKVD officers”. Is Grover Furr correct?
https://diedreiraben.substack.com/p/valentin-astrov-and-grover-furr

#Stalinapologetics #Stalin #Soviethistory @histodons #Histodons

Grover Furr in his book "The Mystery of the #Katyn Massacre" lies about the archeological work of Dominika Siemińska. He specifically uses the findings related to two mass graves (no1 and no2) to "debunk" the findings of other mass graves. (no4 and no5)

#Katynmassacre #Stalin #Stalinapologetics #Histodons @histodons

Grover Furr accuses a Gorbachev era rehabilitation report of lying. His basis for this is their use of Mikhail Frinovskii’s 1939 confession. What he doesn’t explain to his readers is that Frinovskii’s 1939 confession that testimony was rehearsed, clemency was offered for confessions in court, fabrication of an assassination attempt do not fit well into the narrative of their guilt.
https://istmat.org/node/46740
#Stalinapologetics #stalinism @histodons #histodons

Just a friendly reminder that the director of the Federal Security Service ( #FSB ) Alexander Bortnikov believes the #Yezhovschina was justified and the Moscow trial defendants had connections to "foreign secret services".
https://rg.ru/2017/12/19/aleksandr-bortnikov-fsb-rossii-svobodna-ot-politicheskogo-vliianiia.html

#Russia #Stalin #Stalinapologetics @histodons

Grover Furr in his “critique” of Stephen Kotkins #stalin biographies cites Valentin Astrov’s 1937 “confession” to prove the Ryutin platform was actually Bukharin’s. Furr however ignores that in his 1993 Izvestia letter Astrov wrote that he “knew nothing about its composition or program”.

#Stalinapologetics @histodons #histodon

#Stalinapologetists are forever stuck in the 1940's. They haven't read any of the subsequent literature that documented that United States Ambassador Joseph E Davies saw the Moscow trials as “nightmare” proceedings that were not "trial[s] at all". (MacLean, Envoy to the Soviets, p.50) Or that he dishonestly altered his reports and diary entires in his book "Mission to Moscow".

#Stalinapologetics #Soviethistory

#Stalinapologetists are forever stuck in the 1940's. They haven't read any of the subsequent literature that documented that United States Ambassador Joseph E Davies saw the Moscow trials as “nightmare” proceedings that were not "trial[s] at all". (MacLean, Envoy to the Soviets, p.50) Or that he dishonestly altered the record in his "Mission to Moscow".

#Stalinapologetics #Soviethistory

Grover Furr back in 2018 deliberately omitted text from doctor Vincenzo Palmieri's testimony to the Madden Commission that showed he derived his own conclusions that were similar to doctor Ferenc Orsós. By doing so he can falsely allege that Sanford lied about Palmieri's statements.

#Stalinapologetics #Katyn #Katynmassacre @histodons

Back in 2016 Grover Furr dishonestly presented a report from Mark Zborowski as evidence that Trotsky had created a "terrorist bloc". It is a document from January 1937, after the second Moscow Show Trial, where Trotsky's Son Sedov is recorded as having called for Stalin's assassination.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/gf_marxmem2016.html

Furr deliberately avoided, in all of his works, the fact that Zborowski explicitly said he believed the trials were frame-ups.

#Stalinapologetics @histodons