Just came across this absolute trashfire of a book by an American prof. I know these revisionist takes about WWII are a dime a dozen… but this one seems particularly egregious in its claims that Stalin masterminded World War II and that the only reason for the USSR’s success was that the stupefied Allies fell for his dastardly plan.
This level of brazen stupidity and/or disingenuousness borders on incomprehensible.
You can tell libs don’t even read this shit because Robert Conquest is the one who details the Holodomor in multiple books. In one of these books, he explains how kulaks slaughtered millions of livestock to leave their corpses rotting in fields, set fire to grain silos, sowed soil with salt, poisoned wells, and then fled the country.
He then turns around and blames these actions on Stalin for asking them to maybe possibly please share some of the land seized during the Revolution and Civil War because this drought is causing problems for everyone else.
To be clear, I was talking about the '46-'47 famine, which was caused by the events of WWII, not the '32-'33 famine (“Holodomor”), but I agree with you that it’s morbidly funny how even the most sympathetic sources give the game away that, if we are to call the famine deliberate, it was instigated by the kulaks, but their actions that were for no other purpose than destroying the food supply and productive capacity of the area are framed as heroic acts of resistance. I don’t remember the detail of them poisoning wells, but they destroyed their own equipment in some cases just to keep other people from using it.