Reply #75: This link cites Robert Conquest for much of its content [View All]

[JVS]

That is like quoting the Arab league for information about Israel, questionable to say the least.

Here is an article about such work that was in Village Voice
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/vv.html

I will agree with your basic premise that Stalin was responsible for atrocities. However, I am disappointed with your inability or unwillingness to find sources that do not either state outrageous claims such that Russian soldiers entering Poland in 1939 were far more interested in raping elderly women than securing the newly planned frontier or that are not dependent on writers who are known to have worked with the Information Research Department of the British Foreign Office.

If I were to claim that Bush is a bad president because he pursues bad policy which costs lives, I would be correct. If I were to claim that Bush is a bad president because he has eaten children and killed everyone in Mankato Minnesota, I would be incorrect. Sources that do the latter with respect to Stalin are false, even if there is a kernel of truth around which the fabrication is made.