GREAT EUROPEANS: British historian Robert Conquest (1917-2015) documented Bolshevik mass murder in Ukraine.

He also investigated the Gulag system. Meanwhile, Western academics were celebrating the ‘Soviet experiment.’

Harvard and hundreds of academics praised Stalin’s re-inventing Russia, which, according to Solzhenitsyn, cost the lives of 67.6 million people.

QUOTE: According to estimates by exiled professor of statistics I. A. Kurganov, from 1917 to 1959, the cost was 66.7 million people. This excludes war losses.

These losses were only from terrorist destruction, suppression, and hunger. The high mortality in the camps and subsequent low birth rate were also factors. (The Gulag Archipelago, part 3, Chapter 1). ‘Control of the media is in the hands of the perpetrators.’ ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

British intellectuals like George Bernard Shaw visited Moscow and declared the future had arrived. Campus activists wore Che Guevara shirts and quoted Lenin.

Anyone questioning this narrative got dismissed as a reactionary or worse.

One British Historian Refused to Look Away.

Robert Conquest spent the 1960s piecing together evidence from refugee testimonies, leaked documents, and demographic data that didn’t add up.

His 1968 book ‘The Great Terror’ documented Stalin’s purges with precision. His 1986 work ‘The Harvest of Sorrow’ detailed the Ukrainian famine that killed millions.

The academic establishment and Western mainstream media dismissed his warnings as propaganda. The Soviet government called it lies. His publisher struggled to find reviewers willing to take him seriously.

Conquest calculated that Stalin’s collectivization and purges killed between 13 and 15 million Soviet citizens between 1930 and 1953.

Western scholars said this was absurd.

The consensus estimate was 2 to 3 million deaths, most from ‘unfortunate policy mistakes’ rather than deliberate murder.

Conquest’s crime? He did the math.

Conquest’s crime? As did later Holocaust revisionists, he did the math. He compared Soviet census data from 1926, 1937, and 1939. Millions of people had simply vanished from official records.

In ‘The Harvest of Sorrow,’ Conquest documented the Holodomor. This was Stalin’s engineered famine in Ukraine. It killed 7 million people in 1932-33.

Soviet officials seized grain at gunpoint. They banned travel from affected regions. They denied international food aid. Villages were left to starve while grain sat in government warehouses or got exported for foreign currency.

Mainstream Media covered up the genocide

The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty called reports of famine ‘malignant propaganda.’ He won a Pulitzer Prize for his Soviet coverage.

Conquest called it genocide. And he was professionally isolated for saying so.

Why Did Smart People Refuse to Believe Him?

Because acknowledging Conquest meant admitting the entire progressive intellectual project of the 20th century had defended mass murder.

It meant Harvard professors had praised a system that killed millions. It meant ‘useful idiots’ had provided cover for industrial-scale atrocity. It meant campus radicals had romanticized totalitarianism.

The cognitive dissonance was too strong. So, they dismissed the evidence instead.

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Then the USSR Collapsed, and the Archives Opened

In the 1990s, Soviet archives became accessible to researchers. Conquest’s estimates were vindicated almost exactly.

Some figures were even worse than he predicted (See Solzhenitsyn quote).

The NKVD execution lists confirmed what he’d pieced together. The deportation records also supported his findings. Additionally, the famine mortality data verified his earlier conclusions.

I Told You So, You Fucking Fools

His publisher asked whether he wanted to revise the title of ‘The Great Terror’ for a new edition. Conquest supposedly replied that it should be renamed ‘I Told You So, You Fucking Fools’.

In reality, a friend coined the line. The final title was a far more diplomatic choice. It was much more in keeping with Conquest’s own style. But the point had already been made.

Obfuscation of the truth still happens today

Conquest’s vindication exposes something critical about how elite consensus works. When an entire institutional apparatus has committed to a narrative, it systematically dismisses individual researchers.

This occurs even when these researchers have contradicting evidence. The data quality is not considered.

The problem wasn’t that Conquest lacked evidence. Accepting his evidence was difficult. Western academics would have to admit they’d been wrong about the defining ideological question of their generation.

Professional incentives, social pressure, and ideological commitment all aligned to reject information that contradicted the dominant worldview. Even when millions of lives hung in the balance.

Conquest’s story teaches a crucial skill: how to evaluate evidence when institutional authority aligns against it.

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The Real Question Isn’t Whether Conquest Was Right. The archives settled that. He was right, just as those who question the holocaust narrative are being proved right.

The real question is: what are today’s Robert Conquest’s documenting? Hundreds of elite institutions systematically dismiss the obvious. The mainstream media also dismisses the obvious.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russia. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred, they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of remorse.

It cannot be overstated Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant or uncaring is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.” ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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