{"id":981,"date":"2010-02-18T04:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T04:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenix.wordpress.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:24:22","slug":"review-glenn-becks-revolutionary-holocaust-live-free-or-die-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2010\/02\/review-glenn-becks-revolutionary-holocaust-live-free-or-die-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Glenn Beck\u2019s \u201cRevolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: \u201cMost know that the horrors of the Holocaust resulted in the deaths of approximately six million Jews. But what many don\u2019t know is that the government-designed starvation in the Ukraine caused the deaths of between 7 million and 10 million in just one year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, Beck has the arrogance to act as if what he presents is anything new that hasn’t been endlessly parroted since the very beginnings of the Russian Revolution. Historical revisionism of this type seeks to \u201crevise\u201d the history of the world so as to justify the barbaric crimes of fascism against the peoples of the world by claiming that they find their equivalent in socialism. Neo-Nazis have two methods: they either outwardly deny the existence of a state-sponsored program by the German government to eliminate the Jews, or they align themselves in Glenn Beck’s camp and invent \u201cHolocausts\u201d supposedly perpetrated by communists. The so-called Holodomor, the Nazi-inspired tale of the engineered famine, is a tale for there has never been one single shred of evidence. There was a real famine in the Ukraine and it was not \u201cman-made\u201d at all. This is nothing less than historical falsification.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Falsified Newspaper Articles (such as the one above) were used as Propaganda by William Randolph Hearst <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Comparing Nazis and Soviets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While deaths that did occur in the USSR and under socialist regimes were as a result of often violent civil struggle, the Nazis’ deeds were unique for the time in the sense that they were intentionally trying to exterminate entire groups of people. What you did or what someone suspected you of doing were of no consequence to them\u2014only what you were. This attitude is laid bare in the writings of Hitler, Goebbels’ Diary, Himmler’s famous Posen speech, he Max Taubner verdict and many other important documents proving that the extermination of the Jews (among many others) was in fact the deliberate state policy of Nazi Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as we shall see, at no time did the USSR enact or even consider the idea of targeting any ethnic or religious group for extermination. Their were some injustices that occurred in the case of the Crimean Tatars, Chechens, and several other groups, but there was never any intent to exterminate them. In addition, even a rudimentary study of the deaths under Soviet socialism will reveal that eve during the periods of the most protracted violent struggle there was never anything even remotely approaching Hitler’s conquest of Europe or the \u201cFinal Solution.\u201d To compare the two is to whitewash the latter. <\/span>\"\"<\/span><\/a>On Stalin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The famous Civil Rights leader W.E.B. DuBois has written an article that sums up the accomplishments of Stalin briefly. We encourage our readers to take a minute and read it for an alternative view:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mltranslations.org\/Miscellaneous\/DuBoisJVS.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Truth Behind the Ukrainian Famine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The real, existing Ukrainian famine was caused by crop failures and not by the hoarding of grain by the Soviet government. Russia began as a backward, semi-feudal state known worldwide for having famines\u2014they occurred at regular intervals under the oppressive reign of the Czar. The famine was the result of poor agricultural practice and drought, which was to be expected given that the USSR was just then able to modernize agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Collective Farming in the USSR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Dust Bowl in the US had similar causation and there was a limited famine during that time period\u2014limited to the poorest in the US, of course.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Soviets were trying to alleviate the famine, especially in Ukraine. Many of the photos supposedly taken from the Ukrainian Famine were actually from the famine in 1922, which was the result of attacks from the White Guards, the Czarist forces which opposed the Bolsheviks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The entire thesis that the Ukrainian Famine was \u201cintentionally caused\u201d makes no sense. The thesis seems to be that because of uprisings in the Ukraine, Stalin decided to starve them to death. Exactly what the Soviets would have gained from having their leading agricultural sector completely wiped out from hunger is anyone’s guess. People died in the Soviet Union of natural causes, and though Beck may have forgotten it, people do have the potential to die without any interference from the government. In addition, it is worth pointing out that a great deal of the reports of famine in the Ukraine come from the yellow journalist press of the infamous pro-Hitler mogul, William Randolph Hearst.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the original article as it was published in Hearst’s newspaper: http:\/\/colley.co.uk\/garethjones\/soviet_articles\/thomas_walker\/walker_six%20million_perish_in_soviet_famine.htm<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For further reading on where exactly the sources for the famine come from, we recommend this volume: http:\/\/rationalrevolution.net\/special\/library\/famine.htm<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, for further resources from the Russian Archive Service showing Soviet efforts to alleviate the famine, go here (in Russian): http:\/\/www.rusarchives.ru\/publication\/famine\/famine-ussr.pdf<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Soviet Peasant Councils during Collectivization<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What Are the Sources?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to make this comparison however, Beck decides to portray the famine as having killed more people than the Holocaust. The figure he gives of 10 million dead is one that goes up and down and wildly varies. This is typical of propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1932, the Ukrainian population was 25 million inhabitants. The figure of 10 million is supported by little concrete evidence, especially in light of variation of the figures given. Here are the main ones:<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Conquest<\/span>\u2014famous anti-communist writer. Estimated the number of dead at 6,000,000, which was later revised to 14,000,000. Has since said the Ukrainian famine was not a genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dana Dalrymple<\/span>\u2014\u201cThe Soviet Famine of 1932-1934.\u201d 5,500,000 dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nicolas Prychodko<\/span>\u2014Nazi collaborator during the occupation of the Ukraine. Rescued by the West. 7,000,000 dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otto Schiller<\/span>\u2014Nazi civil servant in Ukraine. His text published in 1943 Berlin claimed 7,500,000 dead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ewald Ammende<\/span>\u2014Nazi who had not been in Russia since 1922. Submitted the figure of 7,500,000 to the New York Times<\/em>, which was rejected by correspondent Harold Denny,\u00a0who sent back, \u201cYour correspondent was in Kiev for several days last July about the time people were supposed to be dying there, and neither in the city, nor in the surrounding countryside was there hunger.\u201d And then, later: \u201cNowhere was famine found. Nowhere even the fear of it. There is food, including bread, in the local open markets. The peasants were smiling too, and generous with their foodstuffs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederick Birchall<\/span>\u20144,000,000 dead. Upon publishing this figure he was in Berlin. He was famously one of the first U.S. journalists to support Hitler.<\/span><\/p>\n

William H. Chamberlin & Eugene Lyons<\/span>\u2014one estimate of 4,000,000 and one of 7,500,000 dead. Both worked for the American Committee for the Liberation from Bolshevism, or Radio Liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the highest figure, 10,000,000 was provided by Richard Stallet<\/span> of Hearst’s\u00a0 pro-Nazi press. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dam built during the Soviets' Five-Year-Plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cGenocide?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

All of this \u201cevidence\u201d is obviously skewed and based on unscientific mathematical formulas cherry-picked from various unrelated sources. Keep in mind also, that this is assuming Stalin was responsible for Ukraine, to which the American Party of Labor would contend that he and the Soviet government were not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the anti-communist writer Robert Conquest, who is one of Beck’s own sources<\/em>, has long since backed off the claim that the famine was intentional:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn correspondence Dr. Conquest has stated that it is not his opinion that ‘Stalin purposely inflicted the 1933 famine. No. What I argue is that with resulting famine imminent, he could have prevented it but put ‘Soviet interest’ other than feeding the starving first-thus consciously abetting it.’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(R.W. Davies & Stephen G. Wheatcroft. The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933<\/em>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. p. 441.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Conquest accuses the Soviet government of negligence, not genocide. However, even the negligence claim holds no water, given the facts about the extraordinary efforts the Soviets, under Stalin, went through to alleviate the famine once it was public knowledge. Even if the accusations of negligence did prove true, this hardly amounts to intentional extermination of Ukrainians. The comparison of hunger to gas chambers, firing squads and ethnic cleansing is ludicrous.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a further note, Ukrainian President Yushchenko, whom Beck cites as a source for some odd reason, has pushed for the imperialist governments of the world to recognize the famine as \u201cgenocide.\u201d However, neither the United Nations nor the European Union has done so. It says much about this genocide theory that the imperialist coalitions themselves refuse to give it the time of day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Capitalist Famine for Comparison<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Oddly, President Victor Yushchenko admits a startling insight during the course of Beck’s documentary that does, in fact, ring true. He states: \u201cDeath from hunger was not unusual in the 20th century. But there is a difference between death from hunger and murder by hunger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We have already disproven the claims that the hunger in the Ukraine was intentional and exposed the utter lack of evidence for an intentional state policy. In response to this, there are those that say that any <\/em>hunger at all that happens under a system which claims to be superior to capitalism, such as socialism, is unjustifiable. After all, where is the widespread preventable hunger under capitalism? The facts are there for all to see.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Map of World Hunger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that hunger is the leading cause of child mortality in the world today, being the root cause of half of all cases worldwide. Starvation affects more than one billion people, or one out of every six human beings. Despite this, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations states that the world already produces enough food to feed its entire population\u2014in fact, it could feed 12 billion people, or double the current world population. A few more facts about famine today:<\/span><\/p>\n