Fraud, Famine and Fascism

Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle is a crucial work, now in print after almost 40 years, because it clearly demonstrates that charges of a deliberate Soviet policy of genocide by famine directed against the Ukrainian nation in the early 1930s are based on inflated figures and fabricated evidence. This campaign was initiated by extreme right-wing forces in the USA and Nazi propagandists, and has continued since the 1950s by Ukrainian emigre organizations. Some writers have accused Jewish peoples and "Stalin's Jewish government" of deliberately causing the famine. Chapter 9, Collaboration and Collusion, discusses Ukrainian nationalist involvement in pogroms and assisstance to the Germans during the Holocaust, particularly the faction led by Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It also describes how ex-members of these groups and of Ukrainian Waffen-SS units were enabled to enter the USA and Canada after the World War II. ————————————————————————————————————————————— “Douglas Tottle exposes the fraudulent charge of famine-genocide made against the USSR. Skillfully, Tottle traces the labyrinthine history of the ‘evidence’ — documentary and photographic — on its convoluted passage from nazi publications to the Hearst press to the misfounded ‘scholarship’ of such present-day Kremlinologists as Robert Conquest. Tottie's sharp and engagingly written investigation is useful and intelligent. The author makes an important contribution by exposing the ways and wiles of anti-communist propaganda.” — Clarence J. Munford Professor of History University of Guelph “For almost 70 years the study of the Soviet Union has been trapped in a sea of distortion, lie and propaganda. While this has not always been one-sided, its overall effect has been to stimulate fear suspicion and danger of war. In the present age of new thinking about the history of socialism in the USSR, it remains necessary to deal with and disperse at least the worst of the lies. Tottle’s book demonstrates clearly the viciousness surrounding the theory of the Ukrainian genocide and hopefully will open the way to genuine study of the Ukrainian road to socialism.” — David Whitefield Professor of History University of Calgary