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'''Maoist Rebel News''' is a [[YouTube]] channel run by vlogger '''Jason Unruhe'''. Unruhe is a controversial figure in the [[communist]] community.
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'''Maoist Rebel News''' is a [[YouTube]] channel run by vlogger '''Jason Unruhe'''. Unruhe is a controversial figure in the [[communist]] community who has made outlandish claims about the history of certain communist leaders, going so far as to be a [[North Korea]] apologist.<ref>For numerous examples, see [https://maoistrebelnews.wordpress.com/category/north-korea/ these articles] on Unruhe's blog</ref>
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==Maoist Rambling Nonsense, aka Stalin Denialism==
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Unruhe claims that deaths under the [[Joseph Stalin|Stalinist]] purges were widely exaggerated. Unruhe claims [[Boris Yeltsin]] opening of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] documents revealed only--''only!''--a total of 775,866 executions. However, this statistic leaves out [[ethnic cleansing]] committed by the NKVD in the form of deliberate famines which claimed 5-10 million lives <ref>Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. ISBN 0-7538-1766-7.</ref> <ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akRdu1cuBPKg&refer=europe</ref><ref>It also ignores the fact that Soviets executed 775,866 people too many.</ref>
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Unruhe also asserts that the total number of executions is less than deaths caused by the [[CIA]], but the CIA committing crimes does not mean Stalin was not a genocidal dictator.
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Unruhe then claims that the most executions occurred in 1937-1938, which is accurate. However, Unruhe then uses alleged anti-communist activities by [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] as justification for these executions. He then asserts that many had their death sentences revoked, for which he provides no citation and then speculates on total number of deaths based on data from deaths in one purge.
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We have no way of knowing the exact number of people executed in Stalin’s purges, but we do know that the purges happened and we know the minimum number of executions (775,866). According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot. <ref>''Communism: A History'' (Modern Library Chronicles) by Richard Pipes, pg 67</ref> Some historians, such as the self proclaimed "Sovietologist" Richard Conquest, claim that the numbers declassified by the Russians are inaccurate and the total number of deaths may be twice as high as reported. <ref>Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia: 1934-1941. - book reviews by Robert Conquest, 1996, ''National Review''</ref>
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Even with Unruhe's statistics, Stalin is still directly responsible for the deaths of 40,000 prisoners, 90% of whom are confirmed executed. Stalin himself signed 357 execution lists over the course of the Great Purge to make this possible. <ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/soviet/famine/ellman1933.pdf</ref> Even if we accept Unruhes stats, Stalin is still responsible for the death of  36,000 individuals, which is enough to consider Stalin a mass murderer and not someone to glorify.
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Stalin personally directed Nikolia Yezhov to torture individuals arrested until confessions were extracted. Recent documents have revealed the following Stalin quote: “Isn't it time to squeeze this gentleman and force him to report on his dirty little business? Where is he: in a prison or a hotel?"<ref>Marc Jansen, Nikita Vasil'evich Petrov. Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940. Hoover Institution Press, 2002.</ref>
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===The famines===
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Unruhe [[denialism|claims]] that the [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] famine of 1932-1933, or [[Holodomor]], was caused by failures of Stalinist farm collectivization. In actuality, Holomodor was a forced famine that claimed the lives of between 2.4 million and 7.5 million <ref>Snyder 2010, p. 53. "One demographic retrojection suggests a figure of 2.5 million famine deaths for Soviet Ukraine. This is too close to the recorded figure of excess deaths, which is about 2.4 million. The latter figure must be substantially low, since many deaths were not recorded. Another demographic calculation, carried out on behalf of the authorities of independent Ukraine, provides the figure of 3.9 million dead. The truth is probably in between these numbers, where most of the estimates of respectable scholars can be found. It seems reasonable to propose a figure of approximately 3.3 million deaths by starvation and hunger-related disease in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–1933".</ref>  <ref>David R. Marples. Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine. p.50</ref>.
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===Controversial 9/11 opinions===
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Unruhe has also gone so far as to condemn the victims of 9/11. In his video he outright states his view that those who died in the towers deserved their fates.<ref>http://youtu.be/JXriphg1Yqs</ref>
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==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Batshit crazy]]
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[[Category:Extreme moonbattery]]
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[[Category:Internet kooks]]
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Maoist Rebel News is a YouTube channel run by vlogger Jason Unruhe. Unruhe is a controversial figure in the communist community who has made outlandish claims about the history of certain communist leaders, going so far as to be a North Korea apologist.[1]

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Maoist Rambling Nonsense, aka Stalin Denialism

Unruhe claims that deaths under the Stalinist purges were widely exaggerated. Unruhe claims Boris Yeltsin opening of Soviet documents revealed only--only!--a total of 775,866 executions. However, this statistic leaves out ethnic cleansing committed by the NKVD in the form of deliberate famines which claimed 5-10 million lives [2] [3][4]

Unruhe also asserts that the total number of executions is less than deaths caused by the CIA, but the CIA committing crimes does not mean Stalin was not a genocidal dictator.

Unruhe then claims that the most executions occurred in 1937-1938, which is accurate. However, Unruhe then uses alleged anti-communist activities by Germany as justification for these executions. He then asserts that many had their death sentences revoked, for which he provides no citation and then speculates on total number of deaths based on data from deaths in one purge.

We have no way of knowing the exact number of people executed in Stalin’s purges, but we do know that the purges happened and we know the minimum number of executions (775,866). According to the declassified Soviet archives, during 1937 and 1938, the NKVD detained 1,548,366 persons, of whom 681,692 were shot. [5] Some historians, such as the self proclaimed "Sovietologist" Richard Conquest, claim that the numbers declassified by the Russians are inaccurate and the total number of deaths may be twice as high as reported. [6]

Even with Unruhe's statistics, Stalin is still directly responsible for the deaths of 40,000 prisoners, 90% of whom are confirmed executed. Stalin himself signed 357 execution lists over the course of the Great Purge to make this possible. [7] Even if we accept Unruhes stats, Stalin is still responsible for the death of 36,000 individuals, which is enough to consider Stalin a mass murderer and not someone to glorify. Stalin personally directed Nikolia Yezhov to torture individuals arrested until confessions were extracted. Recent documents have revealed the following Stalin quote: “Isn't it time to squeeze this gentleman and force him to report on his dirty little business? Where is he: in a prison or a hotel?"[8]

The famines

Unruhe claims that the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, or Holodomor, was caused by failures of Stalinist farm collectivization. In actuality, Holomodor was a forced famine that claimed the lives of between 2.4 million and 7.5 million [9] [10].

Controversial 9/11 opinions

Unruhe has also gone so far as to condemn the victims of 9/11. In his video he outright states his view that those who died in the towers deserved their fates.[11]

Footnotes

  1. For numerous examples, see these articles on Unruhe's blog
  2. Montefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. ISBN 0-7538-1766-7.
  3. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akRdu1cuBPKg&refer=europe
  4. It also ignores the fact that Soviets executed 775,866 people too many.
  5. Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Richard Pipes, pg 67
  6. Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia: 1934-1941. - book reviews by Robert Conquest, 1996, National Review
  7. http://www.paulbogdanor.com/left/soviet/famine/ellman1933.pdf
  8. Marc Jansen, Nikita Vasil'evich Petrov. Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940. Hoover Institution Press, 2002.
  9. Snyder 2010, p. 53. "One demographic retrojection suggests a figure of 2.5 million famine deaths for Soviet Ukraine. This is too close to the recorded figure of excess deaths, which is about 2.4 million. The latter figure must be substantially low, since many deaths were not recorded. Another demographic calculation, carried out on behalf of the authorities of independent Ukraine, provides the figure of 3.9 million dead. The truth is probably in between these numbers, where most of the estimates of respectable scholars can be found. It seems reasonable to propose a figure of approximately 3.3 million deaths by starvation and hunger-related disease in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–1933".
  10. David R. Marples. Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine. p.50
  11. http://youtu.be/JXriphg1Yqs
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