TABLE of CONTENTS ▾ Hide/Show All Sections ▿ Introduction: What is Bloodlands and Why Do We Need to Expose It? "Petro Veldii" Kovalenko's Book Organization of This Book The Anti-Stalin Paradigm Fabrications, Falsifications, and Lies Objectivity and the Truth Evidence The Role of Appropriate Skepticism True Fact-Claims Are Acknowledged Polish and Ukrainian "Nationalism" Why Now? Anticommunism Geopolitics US Competition with Russia Method of Presentation The "Big Lie" Technique Footnotes ▿ I. The Man-Made" Famine and "Deliberate Famine" Arguments in Bloodlands, Chapter 1 A. The Famine Itself Was Deliberate Murder The "Ukrainian Famine" and Post-Soviet Nationalism B. Collectivization Caused the Famine Collectivization and The Famine of 1932-33: What Really Happened Famines in Russian History Collectivization Peasant Protests Against Collectivization The Famine of 1932-33 Environmental Factors Caused The Famine The Question of Grain Exports Footnotes ▿ II. The Famine of 1932-33 "Deliberate"? Snyder's "Seven Points" of Proof Point One (pp. 42-3): Were Ukrainian Peasants Required to Return Grain Advances? Point Two (p. 43): Did the "Meat Tax" Cause Starvation? Point Three (p. 43): Did the "Black List" Cause "Zones of Death"? Point Four (pp. 43-44): Did Vsevolod Balitskii Terrorize Ukrainian Party Officials? Point Five. Did Kaganovich Condemn Millions To Die of Starvation? Point Six (p. 45): Did Stalin Doom Peasants to Starve by Forbidding Train Travel? Point Seven (pp. 45-6): Did Stalin Seize the Seed Grain in December 1932? The Fraud of Snyder's "Seven Points" Types of Dishonest Citations False Statements in Shapoval's article "Lügen und Schweigen." Snyder Falsifies Gareth Jones's Story Raphael Lemkin and the Accusation of "Soviet Genocide" Snyder: "Almost No One Claimed that Stalin Meant To Starve Ukrainians To Death..." Snyder's Dishonest Attack on Walter Duranty Resolution of the Soviet of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the CC of the Communist Party of the Ukraine on the "Black Board" Footnotes ▿ III. Snyder, Chapter 1 - Appendix The Starving Children Snyder "Begs the Question" of the Famine (Assumes What He Needs To Prove) The Lie of "Slave Labor" Was the Threat of Mass Starvation "Clear" to Stalin by June 1932? "Stalin's First Commandment": Another Snyder Fabrication More False Citations; Stalins "Personal Politics"; "Starving Peasants on Tour" Travelling Peasants Were "Whining" - Just Not Starving Did Molotov and Kaganovich Explain Starvation as "Laziness"? Were "Women Routinely Raped, Robbed of Food"? "Stalin's New Malice" Did Stalin Call the Famine a "Fairy Tale"? Did Stalin Believe that "Starvation Was Resistance"? "Starvation Was Resistance": Another Snyder Fabrication Should Stalin Have Predicted The Future? "Begging the Question" Again: Assertions Without Evidence "To Be Purged = Death"? "Collective Farming Did Not Work" Deportations and Martin's Error Snyder: "Half a Million Youngsters in Watchtowers" Maksudov's Falsification Why Were Those In Charge of the 1937 Census Arrested? Footnotes ▿ IV. Bloodlands Chapter Two: Snyder's Claim of the Soviets' "Class Terror" Examined Collectivization Did "Soviet Cruelty" Lead to Support for Nazism? Did Communist Hostility to Social-Democrats Facilitate Hitler's Rise to Power Was Collectivization Like Hitler's Anti-Jewish Scapegoating? Had the USSR and Germany Planned to Dismantle Poland since 1922? The Ezhovshchina The Spanish Civil War Snyder Claims The Soviets Made No Progress Towards Socialism No Foreign Subversion? Did Stalin Have No Political Opposition? The Murder of Sergei Kirov - Did Stalin Have No Evidence For His "Theory"? Snyder on the Moscow Trials The Tukhachevsky Affair Snyder's "Fundamental" Source - A Hitler Supporter Snyder Says There Were No Such People as "Kulaks" The Ezhovshchina, Again Phony NKVD "Shorthand" Footnotes ▿ V. Examining Snyder's Claim of "National Terror" in Bloodlands, Chapter 3 Another Falsification by Snyder... Another Lie by Jörg Baberowski The Case of "The Polish Military Organization" The Polish Military Organization (PMO) More Falsehoods by Snyder about Polish Espionage Snyder Falsifies a Quotation Snyder Claims That Stalin Hated All Poles Snyder Falsifies Yet Another Citation Was the "Belorussian Intelligentsia" the Special Target of the NKVD? Snyder Claims That Japan Did Not Move Against the USSR After Mid-1937 Snyder Invents “Stalin’s Theory of Interrogation” Snyder Reads Stalin’s Mood The Ezhovshchina as "Stalin's policy" Snyder: Stalin Didn't Lose, Therefore He Was Always In Control Snyder: Noting A Person's Nationality Is "Not So Very Different From" Nazism Snyder Admits That Poland Was Anti-Semitic, Like Nazi Germany Snyder Denies Poland Wanted to Invade the USSR Alongside Germany Snyder Terms Stalin's Anti-Hitler Move a 'Pro'-Hitler Move Snyder Falsifies the "Molotov-Ribbentrop" Nonaggression Pact Snyder Fabricates a "Justification for Mass Murder" by Stalin Snyder Begins His False Account of the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" Footnotes ▿ VI. The Ezhovshchina, or "Great Terror", and the "Polish Operation": What Really Happened Ezhov's Conspiracy Gradually Uncovered The "Polish Operation" Bukharin, Not Stalin, Was To Blame for the Massive Repressions Ezhov's Confessions Was Ezhov a Polish Spy? Objectivity and Evidence Footnotes ▿ VII. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: What Really Happened? Introduction The Soviet Union Did Not Invade Poland in September, 1939 The Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany Were Never "Allies" The Nonaggression Treaty between Germany and the USSR of August 1939 (6) The Secret Protocols to the M-R Pact Did NOT Plan Any Partition of Poland The Soviets Wanted to Protect the USSR - and Therefore to Preserve Independent Poland The USSR Did Not Invade Poland - and Everybody Knew it at the Time How Do We Know This Interpretation of Events is True? The Collapse of the Polish State Germany No Longer Recognized the Existence of the State of Poland The Question of the State in International Law The Soviet Position Was Valid Under International Law Re-negotiation of "Spheres of Influence" September 28 1939 Polish Imperialism The Polish Government-in-Exile The Polish Government Was Uniquely Irresponsible Footnotes ▿ VIII. Snyder's Fraudulent Claims About the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact "Joint Invasion" of Poland by "Allies": The "Big Lie" At Work Who Destroyed the Polish State? There Was No "Joint Victory Parade" The Soviets Did Not "Occupy" or "Annex" "Poland" or "Polish Territory" What "Legitimate Polish Government"? Specific Falsehoods in Bloodlands, Chapter 4 The Lie the USSR Entered the German-Polish War on Germany's Side The Lie that Stalin Spoke of an "Alliance" with Hitler How Many Poles Did the NKVD Arrest, and Why? Did Soviet Journalists and Teachers Keep Saying "Poland Will Never Rise Again"? Did Stalin Refuse Hitler's Offer to Accept Two Million Jews? (No, He Didn't) Deportations Just Prior to June 22, 1941 Did the Soviets Aim to "Decapitate Polish Society?" (No, They Didn't) Footnotes ▿ IX. Snyder's Fact-Claims in Bloodlands Chapters 5 and 6 Examined The Oft-Repeated Lie: "German-Soviet Alliance" The Lie that the USSR Wanted to "Destroy the Polish Upper Classes" Snyder Equates Nazi Imperialism with Soviet Anti-Imperialism Was Collectivization of Agriculture a Form of Colonialism? Was Stalin's "No Retreat" Order Similar to Nazi-type Racism? Stalin's "No Retreat" Order and Those of the Allies in 1918 Compared Again the Lie that Stalin Rejected Jews from Germany Bloodlands Chapter 6 Footnotes ▿ X. The "Katyn Massacre" What Really Happened? The Historical Dispute The Ukrainian Excavations The "Katyn Massacre": What Really Happened The Katyn Shell Casings Snyder's Account of Katyn The Case of the Two Sets of Siblings: Snyder's Nazi-Soviet Parallel Again Set #1: The Wnuk Brothers Set #2: The Dowbor Sisters: The Legend of Janina Lewandowska The Mystery of Janina Lewandowska, Part 1: Khar'kov The Mystery of Janina Lewandowska, Part 2: Katyn The Mystery of Janina Lewandowska, Part 3: The Falsification Footnotes ▿ XI. The Partisan War and Related Issues in Bloodlands Chapter 7 Did Stalin's Speech of November 7, 1941 Favor Russians? Did Soviet Partisans Cause Nazi Atrocities? It Was the Polish Home Army Who Massacred the Belorussian(9) "Elite" Snyder Falsifies the Nalibocki Incident Snyder Claims that Collective Farms Were Similar to Nazi Racism "Ponomarenko's Report" - Another Example of Snyder's Bias Footnotes ▿ XII. Bloodlands Chapter Nine: Poland and the Home Army Snyder's Falsehoods about the Home Army Polish Government-in-Exile Plan for Postwar Fascism Snyder Tries to Excuse Home Army Anti-Semitism Dairusz Libionka's Account of Warsaw Ghetto Revolt Contradicts Snyder's Snyder Claims the Home Army Aided the Warsaw Ghetto Rebels Snyder Admits the Anti-Semitism of the Home Army: Back to the Same Old Lie of Soviet "Invasion" and "Alliance with Hitler" Snyder Ignores Oppression by the Polish Government The Warsaw Uprising: What Really Happened Snyder's Falsifications about the Warsaw Uprising Snyder Blames the Soviets for the Warsaw Uprising Disaster and Exonerates Those Really Responsible Did the USSR Prosecute Poles Who Resisted Hitler? Did the NKVD Shoot Poles Just Like the Germans Had? Footnotes ▿ XIII. Bloodlands Chapter Ten: Accusations of Soviet Crimes Near the War's End Expulsion of German Colonists - Like Soviet Expulsion of Polish Osadnicy ("Settlers") Poles Murdered Polish Jews Rapes of German Women by Red Army Soldiers Snyder Barely Refers to the Real Genocide: the "Volhynian Massacres" More False Numbers of "Victims" Snyder Cares About "Elites." About Other People? Not So Much... The "Numbers Game" Again, Falsified Once More Why Did Stalin Reject Marshall Plan Aid? Did Non-Collectivized Agriculture "Save" the Ukraine from Famine? Footnotes ▿ XIV. Snyder's Accusations of Soviet Anti-Semitism in Bloodlands Chapter 11 What is the Truth? The Lie That Stalin Was Anti-Semitic Did Stalin Murder Solomon Mikhoels? Did Stalin's Daughter Overhear Stalin "Covering Up" Mikhoel's Murder? Did Stalin Say Russians Had Been the War's Greatest Victims? Was the Number of Soviet Jews Killed by the Germans a "State Secret"? Did the Soviets Try to Hide the Fact of Collaboration with the Germans? "Some" Nationalist Partisans Were Anti-Semitic? Polish Anti-Semitism Who Was Harmed By Soviet "Occupation"? "The Big Lie" Yet Again: "Soviet Invasion of Poland," "Soviet Alliance with Germany" Was There Official Anti-Semitism in the USSR After World War 2? Stalin Opposed Anti-Semitism The "Berlin Blockade" Snyder Falsifies - Again - About Litvinov's Dismissal Did the Polish Communists Claim that Only Communists Led the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt? Again Snyder Claims Stalin "Slandered the Home Army and the Warsaw Uprising" Should Stalin Have Left Terrorists Alone Because A Few Of Them Had Once Tried to Save Jews? Snyder Lies About Purge of the Polish Communist Party The "Doctors' Plot" There Really Was a "Doctors' Plot Against Zhdanov Did Stalin Order the Doctors To Be Beaten in 1952? Snyder Falsifies Stalin's Words Anything To Make Stalin Appear Anti-Semitic? Snyder Falsifies the Draft Letter Snyder: Rumors Are History - Almost Snyder Still Believes Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" Footnotes ▿ XV. An Examination of the Falsehoods in Bloodlands Methods of Falsification in Bloodlands Analysis of the Prevarications in Bloodlands Three "Review Forums" on Bloodlands Objectivity Anticommunist Scholarship Footnotes ▿ Conclusion "An Attack on the Enlightenment" Failure of the Field of Soviet and East European History How Could This Happen? The Strength of the "Anti-Stalin Paradigm" What Can We Do? Distrust A Renewed Insistence Upon Objectivity The Falsehoods of Polish "Nationalist" Mythology Why Tell Lies If the Truth Is On Your Side Where are the "Crimes of Stalinism" The Crimes of Western Imperialism The Crimes of Eastern European "Nationalists" "Nationalism" Justifies Nothing The Role of NATO and the United States Apology for Holocaust Perpetrators - But Not Only for Them Footnotes ▿ Bibliography and Sources Bibliography Corrigenda and Addenda