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Is Grover Furr a trustworthy historian? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is he actually the fraud that he's been made to be? With all the red scare-esque balderdash that's being thrown around, i really can't make anything out.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His specialty is in literature, not history, and this is why he gets dismissed, because he's not doing it the "right way". But he hunts down primary sources in Russian and translates them himself; he's corrected various mistranslations that have been used as the basis of major anti-USSR narratives for example.

A piece of evidence weighs supreme until something better comes around to dethrone it. Furr's evidence is thorough, you can't really argue that a policeman's badge wasn't found at a grave other than Katyn, because, well, it was found at that other grave. If they have evidence to the contrary they should present it instead of shriveling into a corncob. He's inconvenient and that's why he gets dismissed and people will tell you to not even try to read him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He really is very autistic with his obsession with the truth. Watching videos of him and reading his books it becomes pretty apparent. He's just pure on about the facts and evidence. His books are such a hard read because of how factual and dry they are. Spends the first chapter in the few I have read just describing his methods of review he used. Such a fantastical slog to get through.

One big thing for me is, people who are frauds usually are doing it for some real, tangible gain. For money, to get in good with the right people, etc. Furr, makes no money off his books. All the money goes to the publisher just so they can print the books. He makes no material gains from his work. He doesn't get in good with anyone cause he's going against the narrative of those with all the power. All he gets from his work is ridicule. So why then would he be lying. Why would he make any of it up? He doesn't have a fan club. He isn't even a communist so I'm his support from the left is tempered. So what then is his driving force besides just an obsession with the truth? There isn't one. The man just wants to report the truth from what the evidence shows.