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Standing by Stalin

Professor Steven Vardy of Duquesne University criticized my response to David Horowitz ("Re-educating Comrade Horowitz," Letters, March 21 and TribLIVE.com), but he is wrong on each of his statements ("Professor, meet Killer Joe," Letters, April 16 and TribLIVE.com).

For example: "Millions" did not "die as innocent victims" in the gulag. The famine of 1932-33 was not "artificially induced" nor confined to the Ukraine; nor did "six to seven million" die in it.

All evidence points to the guilt of the defendants in the Moscow Trials. And there is no evidence for his absurd claim that Stalin "was responsible for the death of 45 million people." Stalin did not sign "death warrants" at all, much less for "3,182 victims on Dec. 12, 1938."

Soviet history has been falsified for over a half-century. In my own research, I am simply popularizing a little of the exciting new research on the Soviet Union that recently has been produced in Russia. There is much more to come.

Grover Furr
Montclair, N.J.

The writer is an English professor at Montclair State University.