Holodomor In a
CounterPunch article published in March 2017, Furr argues that "[t]here was a very serious
famine in the USSR, including (but not limited to) the
Ukrainian SSR, in 1932–33. But there has never been any evidence of a '
Holodomor' or '
deliberate famine,' and there is none today. The 'Holodomor' fiction was invented by
Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who found havens in Western Europe, Canada, and the USA after the war."
Moscow Trials Contrary to the widely accepted view that the
Moscow Trials were a series of
show trials held at the instigation of
Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938 against
Trotskyists and members of
Right Opposition of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Furr believes that all defendants in the Moscow Trials were at least guilty of what they were charged, as argued in a 2017 article for
Journal of Labor and Society, a quarterly journal published by
Brill.
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact In 2012, Furr stated that the
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed by the
Soviet Union to preserve an independent Poland rather than planning a partition of Poland, as was in fact stipulated in the
secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Furr argues that
Britain and
France also signed the
Munich Agreement, a nonaggression pact with Germany that partitioned another state and that Poland too took part in the partition of
Czechoslovakia, making the Soviet Union not unique in its signing of a non-aggression pact with Germany. Furr criticises the
Polish government in exile, arguing that it should have remained somewhere in Poland "at least long enough to surrender" or could have fled to Britain or France rather than in neutral Romania. In Furr's words, "[a] 'rump' Poland might finally have agreed to make a mutual defense pact that included the USSR. That would have restarted 'collective security', the anti-Nazi alliance between the
Western Allies and the USSR that the Soviets sought but UK and French leaders rejected." According to Furr, this would have "greatly weakened Hitler; probably eliminating much of the
Jewish Holocaust; certainly preventing the conquest of France, Belgium, and the rest of Europe; [and] certainly prevented many millions of deaths of Soviet citizens".
Katyn Massacre Contrary to the historical consensus and as stated by both the
Soviet Union (in 1991) and the
Russian Federation (in 2004), Furr denies Soviet complicity in the Katyn massacre, arguing in a 2013 article in the Marxist journal
Socialism and Democracy that the
Katyn massacre was committed by the Nazi
Schutzstaffel rather than by the Soviet
NKVD. In 2010, Furr said that he believed the widely accepted view until the discoveries in the
mass graves at Volodymyr-Volynskyi, which he says prove his thesis. According to Furr, some Poles that were implicated in
Polish war crimes against Soviet POWs during 1919–1921, were likely killed by the Soviets while Nazis shot the others later. Furr cites a 1985 interview of
Lazar Kaganovich in which he stated that the Soviets shot 3,200 Poles – all of whom were guilty of
capital crimes.
Timothy Snyder, and
Stephen Kotkin, and accused them of dishonestly distorting what he believes to be the truth in their publications on Soviet history. ==Reception==