U of Alberta has Marxist-Leninist prof. who denies Holomodor

CBC has the story. 

The salient bits are a Prof. at U of A. claimed to the class that the Holomodor was Nazi disinformation and never happened. This was greatly offensive to a Ukrainian in the class who’s personal family tragedy was entirely about the Soviet starvation of the people of the Ukraine and further across Central and Eastern Europe as well.

What the CBC does say down the article near the end:

MacDonald is listed as an assistant lecturer within the department of elementary education in the faculty of education. In the 2019 federal election, he was a candidate for the Marxist-Leninist Party in Edmonton Strathcona.

The CBC also makes this insane bit of historical revisionism:

…from a time when the Soviet Union starved millions of Ukrainians through a man-made famine from 1932 to 1933.

The Holomodor was a much longer event that the New York Times helped perpetuate through a man so evil he must have been Frankfurt School, named Walter Durante. He got the Pulitzer Prize for his efforts in helping the Soviets starve out millions of Ukrainians to death, and tricking the USA into allowing it to happen.

(Please see movie below)

For anyone wishing to get a glimpse into the utter horror that was the attempted genocide of the Slavic peoples, especially in The Ukraine, please watch The Soviet Story

 

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9 Replies to “U of Alberta has Marxist-Leninist prof. who denies Holomodor”

    • Oh yes indeed. This is a perfect analogue to a Nazi Holocaust denier. And it should be treated as such.

  1. Vlad, if I were you, I’d treat this “Holodomor” concept with extreme caution. To understand Eastern European realities and many variables at play, one has to be in the very least sceptical and apprehensive at the same time. Don’t take it at face value. Everything is much more complicated at play here. That’s all I’m going to say at this time. I can deliberate further, if you want me to.

    • Albrecht, was this a genocide by starvation of Ukrainians by the Soviets, or not?

      Complicating tyranny is a common and disingenuous tactic by tyrants to obfuscate truths of a matter, is it not?

        • OK, I see there’s a need for the promised longer answer.

          The famine was widespread throughout many parts of the Soviet lands (Northern Caucasus regions, Kazakhstan, and most of all – Volga regions) and not limited to just Ukraine and therefore could not honestly be marked as a methodical and intentional (and meaningless) genocide of “Ukrainian people”.

          The noise about the genocide of specifically Ukrainians had started in the 1940s in anti-Soviet Ukrainian diaspora in exile, and this project had some support from the CIA. This had even a greater push in the 70s when the US State Dept issued a grant for expanding into various subjects that could undermine the USSR. This one was selected as having a potentially profound effect, as part of the raging Cold War. Then two American authors, who based their findings on the diaspora’s publications, published their book in 1984 and it was translated to many languages and was especially successful in Munchen, Germany.
          However when one of the authors gained access to the actual archives, he was shocked that he found no evidence of any ruling by Stalin about the alleged political annihilation of Ukrainians. He announced about his fresh findings to the journalists, but, of course, was dismissed as a denialist because he told something that he was not supposed to tell.

          If you look at the grain harvest trends throughout the world you would see that the hunger was widespread in the same years in 1920s and 1930s all over the world, including US. And even close to Ukraine – western lands of what is now part of Ukraine were under Polish rule and they still experienced the same extreme hunger and death.

          Is anybody making these comparisons? Historians – yes. But not the ideologically-driven journalists & politicians. They only push what suits their purpose, as you are well aware.
          Everybody has their own interest in this game. The diaspora had nationalist goals of pronouncing their desire to commit a (painful and impossible) separation from their Russian nature, history, language, & traditions and become part of the West. This idea has been conceived and supported in the 19th century by Austria and Germany (including Otto von Bismarck himself) viewing the Russian Empire as their competitor and willing to split the empire by fanning the flames of nationalist movements.

          Then CIA and the globalists had its own goals and still has them to this day, now viewing the new Russia (which is quite different from the USSR) as their new opponent in the modern geopolitics and world influence. Hence the active participation and the leading role in nationalist and other “orange revolutions” across the world, including 2014 Maidan.

          The nationalists deliberately inflate the numbers and distort the nature of this famine as something that was perpetrated by the Russians on purpose, while in reality many local administration representatives in the Soviet Ukrainian Republic failed their duties.

          There there many reasons of the many waves of the Famine, not the least of them due to painful years of the Civil war of 1918-1923 and collectivization of farmers. For example, many richer farmers hid the grains in makeshift silos, dug in the ground hurriedly, without proper preparation of the soil with the fire. And year after year there were incredibly high numbers of rodents, reported by the newspapers. The mice and rats penetrated those silos with ease and damaged the hidden crops. We should not be forgetting all of these factors.

          Huge numbers of villagers were affected across the Soviet Union. My own grandma had to flee the hunger the Volga region in the early 30s and settle in the unaffected Uzbekistan. Two of my uncles (aged 3 & 5) died during that perilous journey from deceases that would be easily treated today but for which there was no cure back then. Many families, Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh et cetera – all have someone among their ancestors who died in the 20s and early 30s.

          And then there are numbers. Holodomor proponents insist on of millions of lives lost. The census statistics say otherwise. The population all across the Soviet Union and in Ukraine in particular – actually increased in the 30s compared to the 20s. It cannot be both – millions lost and population increase. Even the meticulous Germans who occupied the lands and had every head counted, had the numbers that match the same trends. These documents are published and are available for your analysis, if so desired.

          Therefore, all I’m asking Vlad and his readers to consider is this: The constant push for making Holodomor (“death from hunger”) into something more that it was has its own goals, political & ideological.

          Don’t fall for this trap. Don’t take something your read somewhere or watched an emotional movie (the most effective of all propaganda) as an undeniable axiom. Because if you do, you are playing into somebody else’s sinister agenda which has nothing to do with helping to stop the trend of suicide by the West and the sunset of the Western civilization and the entire European lineage in general. This is not your fight to fight and it’s not a noble one at that. Do your own research, compare various sources, separate lies from thuth – before jumping to conclusions.