Thanks to Robert Wenzel for this trailer. The movie is titled, Mr. Jones, 2020.
One of the best movies that depicted the horrors of mass murder by the Soviets was the 2007 Oscar winner, Katyn, named for the Soviet massacre of Polish military leaders. .
from Mark Felton Productions.
It was only in 1989 that Soviet academics admitted that Stalin had ordered the Katyn massacre. In 1990, Soviet Premier, Mikhail Gorbachav, named the NKVD as the responsible organization for the massacres. In 1990, Boris Yeltsin ordered the transfer of documents pertinent to Katyn from Russia to Poland. A huge Russian investigation eventually clarified exactly what had happened but many volumes of documents still remain classified. No one has ever stood trial for Katyn and by now everyone involved must be dead. And it was only in 2010 that the Russian Parliament officially admitted that Stalin and Beria were responsible for the massacres. It was the same year that Polish president and 95 Polish politicians and high-ranking army officers and their staff were killed in a plane crash on their way to a ceremony in Russia marking the 70th-anniversary of the Katyn Massacre fueling conspiracy theories that echoed those that still surround the deaths of Prime Minister Sikorski in 1943.
Wikipedia spells out Lavrentiy Beria’s role in the massacre pretty clearly,
The massacre was initiated in NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria‘s proposal to Stalin to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, approved by the Soviet Politburo led by Joseph Stalin.
SOVIET UNION
1. Stalingrad: The City That Defeated the Third Reich, Jochen Hellbeck, 2015. From Bionic Mosquito:
The battle of Stalingrad–the most ferocious and lethal battle in human history–ended on February 2, 1943. With an estimated death toll of a million, the bloodletting at Stalingrad (1942-1943) far exceeded that of Verdun, one of the costliest battles of World War I.
And this
Stalingrad. Almost six months of fighting; between the two sides, over two million combatants; of these, almost two million killed, wounded or captured. A key result of the German defeat: Germany moved significant military resources from west (i.e. where Brokaw’s generation would eventually fight a drastically weakened Germany) to east to deal with the losses and the newfound Soviet momentum.
1. Time and Eternity: The Uncollected Writings of Malcolm Muggeridge, Malcolm Muggeridge (Author), and Nicholas Flynn (Editor). This may be a better assessment of Muggeridge. Whereas Britain’s Muggeridge was documenting the atrocities in the Soviet Union and the Ukraine, Walter Duranty was the New York Times’ Man in Moscow.
Here is the Amazon review:
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) was one of the English-speaking world s most fascinating literary figures. His writing dazzles with its prophetic insight, courage, and wit. He was the first writer to reveal the true nature of Stalin s regime when in 1933 he exposed the terror famine in the Ukraine. Four decades later, Muggeridge was to make the work of Mother Teresa of Calcutta who contributed a Foreword to this book during the initial stages of its research known all over the world.
And what got this party started on the topic of Malcolm Muggeridge and the famine in Ukraine, otherwise known as Holodomor, was this video interview of Jordan Peterson and his discussion on what leads men, good, respectable men to commit horrific acts against their fellow human beings.
h/t to Robert Wenzel for posting this on Sunday, September 9, 2018.
Peterson also mentioned the book, No Ordinary Man, Robert Browning, 1991. The New York Times reviewed the book in 1992. They identify Browning as Christopher R. Browning.
And here are a few notes on Ukraine’s Holodomor. The Communists actually demonstrated against Ukraine’s decision to resist Stalin’s 5-Year Plan that forced thriving, lucrative farms into collectivization.
1928-34, Stalin’s Ukraine Holodomor. Here is one video or re-enactment with decent commentary and several linked resources. The Kulaks were wealthy independent farmers who were benefiting from hard work under the previous, pre-Stalin, agriculture system in Ukraine. But then the Bolsheviks began to tax, harass and beat the Kulaks into submission of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932. Stalin and the Bolsheviks collectivized all farmers throughout the Soviet Union with the exception of a few. Those who would not participate were exiled. In fact, the American Communist Party used to conduct its very own assaults against Ukrainians who protested the Ukraine Holocaust at the hands of the Bolsheviks.
Eric Margolis points out:
Among these monstrous crimes, Ukraine stands out as the worst in terms of numbers. Stalin declared war on his own people. In 1932 he sent Commissars V. Molotov and Lazar Kaganovitch, and NKVD secret police chief G. Yagoda to crush the resistance of Ukrainian farmers to forced collectivization
Ukraine was sealed off. All food supplies and livestock were confiscated. NKVD death squads executed “anti-party elements.” Furious that insufficient Ukrainians were being shot, Kaganovitch “the Soviet Adolf Eichmann” set a quota of 10,000 executions a week. Eighty percent of Ukrainian intellectuals were shot.
During the bitter winter of 1932—33, 25,000 Ukrainians per day were being shot or dying of starvation and cold. Cannibalism became common. Ukraine, writes historian Robert Conquest, looked like a giant version of the future Bergan-Belsen death camp.
2. Winter in Moscow, Malcolm Muggeridge, 1987.
3. There was, of course, the denial of the Holodomor.
4. Stalin was fully committed to using hunger as a mass weapon.
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“Remember, Stalin Killed Far More People Than Hitler,” Eric Margolis, 2016.
While the world remembers the Jewish Holocaust, it has almost totally forgotten the other Holocausts. Amid all the references to Nazi death camps, like Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, there was not a mention of Magadan, Vorkuta Norilsk, or Perm, all infamous ‘islands’ of the Soviet system of industrial murder, known as “the Gulag.”
From 1918 to the late 1950s (Stalin died in 1953), an estimated 20 million or more Soviet citizens were worked to death, shot or starved in the 500 camps that made up the Gulag. The most infamous and lethal were in the Arctic Circle and eastern Siberia.
This article does a good job of showing how the Nazis used the famine in Ukraine to stir global disgust toward Russia.
BOOKS
1. The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1973. This was an excellent interview. Find the time to listen to it.
Thanks to Tom Woods.
2. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine, Robert Conquest, 1987.
3. The Great Terror: A Reassessment, Robert Conquest, 1968.
4. Reflections on a Ravaged Century, Robert Conquest, 1999.
5. Kolyma: The Arctic Death Camps, Robert Conquest, 1978.
6. Stalin: The Breaker of Nations, Robert Conquest, 1991.
7. Stalin and the Kirov Murder, Robert Conquest, 1988.
8. The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purges of the Thirties, Robert Conquest, 1968.
9. New Lies for Old, Anatoly Golitsyn, 1984. By a Soviet defector trying to explain that the Soviet East was going to play a strategic long game. Thanks to this interview with Jeff Nyquist.
10. The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency, Anatoliy Golitsyn, 1995.
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