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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/SheepShagginShea on 2023-08-17 23:53:51+00:00.
Not trying to undermine his work, as I've only just discovered it. But his revisionist assertions seem utterly absurd to me and are in total contradiction to the several USSR historians I've read. For instance, he claims that "not a single" victim of Stalin's great purge was innocent, and that Stephen Kotkin, in his book Stalin Vol II, lied throughout and fabricated evidence to make Stalin look guilty of crimes.
Furr also claims that the Katyn massacre was perpetrated by the Germans - a claim I honestly didn't think anyone still made, given that Gorbachev and the post USSR Russian government have officially acknowledged that the USSR was entirely to blame.
So do any other modern scholars of Russian history support Furr's claims? I'd fact check the primary documents myself but can't read Russian :(
Edit: wrong flair