Comrade:ComradeSyntrofos/sandbox/Debunking myths

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

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

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