*AGREED! How much more of this falsification of history/apologia for gulags and mass executions do we have to take??? Louis must be rolling over in his grave!*
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM ioannis aposperites via groups.io <[email protected]> wrote: > Disgusting and insulting! Isn't it, moderators? > > > Στις 16/12/25 21:14, ο/η Charles via groups.io έγραψε: > > Gorbachev's Commission Lied in Order to Rehabilitate Bukharin > > > > In 1988, during Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika campaign to overthrow > Soviet socialism, a Politburo commission re-examined 270 files from the > arrest and 1938 trial of Nikolai Bukharin. At trial he insisted that he was > indeed guilty of some of the crimes while denying other charges. > > > > Soviet news reports proclaimed that the review cleared Bukharin – he was > innocent of all the crimes. However, the Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin > governments never published the decree of rehabilitation, let alone the > materials that the Politburo commission examined. > > > > Independent researchers have discovered the 1988 decree. It provides no > evidence that Bukharin was falsely convicted in 1938. Worse, the decree > lied about a statement by another accused, Mikhail Frinovsky. He stated > that NKVD chief Yagoda talked to certain accused persons before they were > to confront another accused person in a recorded meeting. Yagoda wanted the > accused person not to disclose that Yagoda himself was a co-conspirator > against the regime. But the commission, without quoting Frinovsky directly, > said he stated that Yagoda ordered staff to get false confessions from the > accused. > > > > Whether Frinovsky's statement was true or false is not the issue here. The > Gorbachev commission was unable to find any reason to doubt Bukharin's > confession to a number of crimes, but it knew it had to conclude that he > was innocent. To that end, the commission twisted Frinovsky's words. > > > > Historians have used the Gorbachev material for decades to assert that > Bukharin was innocent. They were wrong. If they are still active in the > field of Soviet studies, they should correct their previous judgment and > acknowledge that we have no grounds to set aside Bukharin's confession. So > should Trotskyites and anti-communists in general. Don't count on it. > > > > –The above post summarizes research by Grover Furr and Vladimir L. Bobrov, > "Bukharin’s Fraudulent Rehabilitation: A Study of the Unpublished Soviet > Supreme Court Decree," *Cultural Logic: Marxist Theory and Practice*, at > https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/201655 > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39745): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39745 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116814900/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
