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Here I'll cite sources to debunk common anti-communist and other myths. Of course, if I find more material, I'll add it here.

Anti-communist myths

Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact

Myth 1: "The Soviet Union manufactured a famine in Ukraine"

RESOURCE 1: Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle
RESOURCE 2: The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
RESOURCE 3: Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933 by Mark Tauger
RESOURCE 4: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
RESOURCE 5: Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa

Myth 2: "The Soviet Union was a totalitarian dictatorship which killed millions of people"

RESOURCE 1: The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy
RESOURCE 2: Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Syzmanski
RESOURCE 3: Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
RESOURCE 4: Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives by Getty and Manning
RESOURCE 5: Origins of the Great Purges by J. Arch Getty
RESOURCE 6: The Road to Terror by J. Arch Getty
RESOURCE 7: Other studies by historian by J. Arch Getty
RESOURCE 8: The Legacy of Stalinism by "brown-eggs"
RESOURCE 9: Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr
RESOURCE 10: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
RESOURCE 11: Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's 'Bloodlands' Is False by Grover Furr

Myth 3: "The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were undemocratic"

RESOURCE 1: Soviet Communism: A New Civilization by Sydney and Beatrice Webb
RESOURCE 2: Is the Red Flag Flying? by Albert Syzmanski
RESOURCE 3: Socialism Betrayed by Keeran and Kenny
RESOURCE 4: Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934–1941 by Robert Thurston
RESOURCE 5: Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall by Stephen Gowans
RESOURCE 6: The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism by V.L. Allen
RESOURCE 7: The 1936 Soviet Constitution
RESOURCE 8: Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan

People's Republic of China (unfinished)

Myth 1: "Mao killed ~78 million people"

RESOURCE 1:Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? by Joseph Ball
RESOURCE 2:Monster or Liberator? by Carlos Martinez
RESOURCE 3: The Battle for China's Past by Mobo Gao
RESOURCE 4: Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Benton and Chun
RESOURCE 5: How did Mao manage to kill ~78 million people? by Godfree Roberts

Myth 2: "China under Mao was a totalitarian dictatorship"

RESOURCE 1: The Rise of the Chinese People's Communes by Anna Louise Strong
RESOURCE 2: The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution by E. L. Wheelwright
RESOURCE 3: Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
RESOURCE 4: Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton

Myth 3: "China has reverted to capitalism" (unfinished)

RESOURCE 1: Why China is not Capitalist by ProleWiki user and PRC citizen GojiraTheWumao

Myth 4: "China is a totalitarian dictatorship" (unfinished)

RESOURCE 1: Constitution of the People's Republic of China
RESOURCE 2: UN resolution on Global South countries

Myth 5: "China commits a genocide against Uyghurs" (unfinished)

RESOURCE 1: World Bank investigation of Xinjiang
RESOURCE 2: Organization of Islamic Cooperation investigation of Xinjiang (document 1)
RESOURCE 3: Organization of Islamic Cooperation investigation of Xinjiang (document 2)
RESOURCE 4: Egyptian media delegates visit Xinjiang

Myth 6: "China is an imperialist country that wants to puppetize Africa" (unfinished)

(TO BE STARTED)

Cuba

Myth 1: "Che was a bloodthirsty butcher"

RESOURCE 1: Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
RESOURCE 2: Debunking the 'Che Guevara Was Racist!' Lie by Cuervo Rojo

Myth 2: "Cuba is a dictatorship and a horrible place to live"

RESOURCE 1: 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
RESOURCE 2: Cuba: A Revolution in Motion by Isaac Saney
RESOURCE 3: Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion by Arnold August + https://www.democracyintheus.com/
RESOURCE 4: Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet
RESOURCE 5: All in This Together: Cuba's Participatory Democracy
RESOURCE 6: The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba's Municipal Elections by Arnold August
RESOURCE 7: 2002 Cuban Constitution
RESOURCE 8: Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda Fuller

DPRK

Myth 1: "North Koreans believe in unicorns and that Kim-Jong-Un is immortal and that the DPRK is the entire world"

RESOURCE 1: Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies by Alyx Mayer
RESOURCE 2: Anti-DPRK Propaganda War – a Cavalcade of Comedy by Red Youth
RESOURCE 3: Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by 'ordinary' lives of citizens
RESOURCE 4: My trip to North Korea: 13 misconceptions corrected
RESOURCE 5: A Lot Of What You Know About North Korea Is Racist Nonsense
RESOURCE 6: Freed American Matthew Miller: ‘I wanted to stay in North Korea’
RESOURCE 7: Exclusive: The Greek Who Lived in North Korea Tells Her Story
RESOURCE 8: The North Korea Neither Trump Nor Western Media Wants the World to See

Myth 2: "The DPRK is a fascist monarchy"

RESOURCE 1: Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea by Vince Sherman
RESOURCE 2: How to Think about Socialism in Korea
RESOURCE 3: Constitution of the DPRK
RESOURCE 4: Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development by Brun and Hersch
RESOURCE 5: Democracy: US vs DPRK – Towards the Annihilation of a Narrative
RESOURCE 6: On Smoking Weed in North Korea
RESOURCE 7: North Korea: an unlikely champion in the fight against climate change
RESOURCE 8: Zombie Nation? ‘Executed’ North Koreans return to life
RESOURCE 9: The truth about North Korea: it’s booming

Myth 3: "Kim Jong Un is a lunatic who wants to nuke the world"

RESOURCE 1: Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea - Very insightful must read interview with Yongho Thae, Minister of the DPRK embassy in London.
RESOURCE 2: North Korea Punished for Helping to Liberate Africa
RESOURCE 3: How Black Panthers turned to North Korea in fight against US imperialism
RESOURCE 4: North Korea: The Grand Deception Revealed
RESOURCE 5: North Korea will not use nuclear weapons first, says Kim Jong-un
RESOURCE 6: The Real Reason Washington is Worried about North Korea’s ICBM Test
RESOURCE 7: North Korea, The UN, And War Propaganda

Myth 4: "People who leave North Korea think they've reached heaven and that the DPRK is a shithole which tortured them"

RESOURCE 1: North Korean defector confesses to murder
RESOURCE 2: Former defector back in North Korea describes ”painful” life in the South
RESOURCE 3: Why two North Korean defectors want to go back
RESOURCE 4: South Korea boosts reward for defectors from North to $860,000
RESOURCE 5: Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart?
RESOURCE 6: North Korean defector returns home calling South ‘capitalist hell’
RESOURCE 7: Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul
RESOURCE 8: Homegrown Outcasts: North Koreans in Japan

General anti-communist myths

Myth 1: "Socialism is an economic failure"

RESOURCE 1: Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? by Stephen Gowans
RESOURCE 2: From Farm to Factory by Robert Allen
RESOURCE 3: The Rise of Socialism by William Z. Foster
RESOURCE 4: We Lived Better Then by Stephen Gowans
RESOURCE 5: The Need for Planning by Joseph Ball

Myth 2: "Everybody hated socialism"

RESOURCE 1: Homesick for a Dictatorship
RESOURCE 2: 60% of Russians Want Communism Back
RESOURCE 3: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup
RESOURCE 4: Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy
RESOURCE 5: Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism
RESOURCE 6: Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength
RESOURCE 7: Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR
RESOURCE 8: Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period
RESOURCE 9: Freest Under Czech Communism!
RESOURCE 10: Seven Myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans

Albania

Myth 1: "Albania was a totalitarian dictatorship"

RESOURCE 1: Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People by William Ash
RESOURCE 2: Insights into Socialist Albania from 'Pickaxe and Rifle'

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 * RESOURCE 1: ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ad84f6afb71fc78856edd02dcec65c7f Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People]'' by William Ash
 * RESOURCE 2: ''[https://revolutionaryspiritapl.blogspot.com/2011/03/insights-into-socialist-albania-from.html Insights into Socialist Albania from 'Pickaxe and Rifle']''
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