Anti-Communist myths debunked
“In today's world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.”
Socialism in the 21st Century reading list (tons and tons of stuff here too)
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This document exists as a guide to help Communists cut through the propaganda spread by the ruling class in their ongoing attempt to shut down debate and provide legitimacy to capitalism by demonising the only viable alternative.
This resource was created for the purpose of helping Leftists educate people about all of the misinformation, lies and propaganda spread about Communists, and past experiments with Socialism and Communism. Its other main use is in helping Leftists themselves understand some of the controversies in the Communist movement, so that we are all better able to avoid the genuine mistakes and errors that have occurred. After all, how are we supposed to learn from the past if it is buried under a mountain of lies?
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My guide on the DPRK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1we5OEdteZFfAh11v0s_RVh3LWAkVICGrFnvksVynGxw/edit?usp=sharing
Famines & food-related myths
“Holodomor” / Famine in Ukraine
Books and academic works
Articles
YouTube videos
Misc
China food myths
USSR food myths
DPRK food myths
Other
The USSR and Stalin
General
Jews in the USSR
Purges, Moscow Trials etc
Stalin
General
Cult of personality
Unelected & unpopular “dictator”
Gulags
Mass deportations
Dissidents
World War 2 & Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
GDR - German Democratic Republic
General
Berlin Wall
Stasi
Other Socialist/Communist countries/governments
Vietnam
Laos
Afghanistan (DRA- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan)
Cuba
General
Cuba’s economic reforms
LGBTQ+
Did Cuba censor musicians, writers etc?
Che Guevara myths
The Cuban Blockade
DPRK - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
PRC - People’s Republic of China
Is China Socialist?
Poverty reduction campaign
General
Mao
Ghost cities?
Hong Kong
Social Credit System
Inequality
Anti-Corruption drive
Billionaires, private companies, regulation (etc)
Xi, Governance, Political education, etc
Communist Party
China infrastructure, economy, SOE’s, poverty etc
Chinese foreign relations
China-U.S. Trade war (etc)
China-DPRK-RoK relations
South China Sea (etc)
China in Africa
Belt & Road Initiative , “Imperialism” etc
Worker/labor rights, Society (etc)
Pollution & the environment
Tibet
Xinjiang / Islam / Uyghurs
Tiananmen Square
Great Leap Forward / Cultural revolution
Chinese research & development, science, etc.
Venezuela
Communist Military Interventions
Democracy: Communism and Capitalism
Cuba
USSR
Eastern Bloc
China
DPRK
Venezuela
General
Socialism doesn’t work, and other common myths
The USA has no history of Socialism/Communism & “it will never work here”
Quality of life under Socialism
General
China
USSR
Cuba
“Human Rights”
“human nature” ?
“Communism killed millions of people”
Socialism isn’t innovative
Life under communism was/is boring/dull/grey/repressive (etc)
Non-violence??
Communism = White people?
Socialism = big government?
Cultural Marxism?
“Communism is dead” (etc)
Collapse of Communism in the 20th Century
General
The USSR
The Eastern Bloc
Yugoslavia
“Why don’t you ask people who lived under communism?” and “people aren’t happy under socialist systems”
Opinion polls in former socialist/communist states
Communism, feminism, racism and LGBTQ+
General / “IdPol”
Feminism
Theory
History
Anti-racism, anti-colonialism etc
Theory etc
History
LGBTQ+
Communism and religion
Communist theory towards religion
How religion was/is treated in communist countries
World history of Imperialism, anti-Communism (etc)
General
EU
Cuba
DPRK
USSR (historical)
Latin America & Carribean
Chile
Nicaragua
China
Eastern Bloc (historical)
Middle East & Afghanistan
Syria
General
The “Imperial Left” and Syria
White Helmets, NGO’s etc
Rebel groups (etc)
Support for Assad
Chemical Weapons allegations
Douma
Libya
Palestine (“Israel”)
Iran
Iraq
East / Southeast Asia
Africa
Imperialist and anti-communist propaganda explained
The Cold War
Anti-communist propaganda (general)
Propaganda (work in progress)
Amnesty International, HRW etc
NGOs/Aid (general)
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Regime change / Color revolutions
Election interference
War propaganda
Anti-DPRK propaganda
Anti-Russia propaganda / Russiagate
Syrian War Propaganda
Black book of communism
Increasing state repression in Western countries
CIA and other intelligence agencies, mass surveillance etc
Academia, publishing and media
Fascism explained
World War 2
General
The atomic bombing of Japan
Finland
Molotov-Ribbentropp Pact
Katyn Massacre
Misc
Khmer Rouge
Recommended YouTube talks
Other reading guides
Famines & food-related myths
“Holodomor” / Famine in Ukraine
Books and academic works
* Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Doug Tottle
http://rationalrevolution.net/special/library/tottlefraud.pdf
* The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpQllPVzQ2UFd3aWM/view?usp=sharing
* Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931-1933 by Mark Tauger
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpNExnSEVhMjBLRlE/view?usp=sharing
* The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A
* Lies concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa
http://www.mariosousa.se/LiesconcerningthehistoryoftheSovietUnion.html
* The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 reconsidered
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09668130801999912
* Archive of writings of Professor Mark Tauger on the famine scourges of the early years of the Soviet Union
https://www.newcoldwar.org/archive-of-writings-of-professor-mark-tauger-on-the-famine-scourges-of-the-early-years-of-the-soviet-union/
* Blood Lies by Grover Furr
http://www.readmarxeveryday.ml/bloodlies/index.html
* Pages 95-111 of Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens - Collectivization and the ‘Ukrainian Holocaust’
https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
* J Arch Getty reviews “Harvest of Sorrow”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n02/j-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine
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* Did Stalin or the Authorities stop starving peasants from leaving Ukraine? (see below pages of Bloodlies)
Articles
* Mark Tauger reviews The Years of Hunger by Davies and Wheatcroft
https://eh.net/book_reviews/the-years-of-hunger-soviet-agriculture-1931-1933/
* Stop spreading Nazi propaganda: on Holodomor
https://socialistmlmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/stop-spreading-nazi-propaganda/
* The Holodomor Hoax: Joseph Stalin’s crime that never took place
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/10/the-holodomor-hoax-joseph-stalins-crime-that-never-took-place/
* Real Stalin series: famine of 1932
https://espressostalinist.com/the-real-stalin-series/famine-of-1932/
* In search of a Soviet Holocaust: A 55 year old famine feeds the Right
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/vv.html
* The Ukrainian famine: only evidence can disclose the truth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/31/the-ukrainian-famine-only-evidence-can-disclose-the-truth/
* The “Holodomor” and the film “Bitter Harvest” are Fascist lies
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/
* Holodomor Hoax: the anatomy of a lie invented by West’s propaganda machine
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201510191028730561-holodomor-hoax-invented-hitler-west
* The famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine the eyes of historians, the language of documents
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-Pyrig-1932.php
* How many people did Joseph Stalin really kill?
https://anti-imperialism.org/2016/02/16/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-really-kill/
* Evidence that Stalin was unaware of conditions in the Ukraine and tried to relieve the situation when he was informed
http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/10/03/fighting-the-holodomor-myth-archival-evidence-that-stalin-was-unaware-of-conditions-in-the-ukraine-and-tried-to-relieve-the-situation-when-he-was-informed/
YouTube videos
* Why the Holodomor narrative is wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEi7v2TMpQ
* Holodomor series - part 1 - fraudulent photos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzXFXdOz_8Q
* Food shortages and problems in the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUO7_SiJCpw
* Did Stalin continue to export grain as Ukraine starved?
https://youtu.be/SMBJ_nQ4sTA
Misc
* "Recent evidence has indicated that part of the cause of the famine was an exceptionally low harvest in 1932, much lower than incorrect Soviet methods of calculation had suggested. The documents included here or published elsewhere do not yet support the claim that the famine was deliberately produced by confiscating the harvest, or that it was directed especially against the peasants of the Ukraine."
Koenker and Bachman, Eds. Revelations from the Russian Archives. Washington: Library of Congress, 1997, p. 401
* "In view of the importance of grain stocks to understanding the famine, we have searched Russian ar