Yury Mukhin, the Falsifier

One of the pillars on which the Stalinist legendarium rests is the publicist Yury Mukhin. The “scientific” nature of his work can be judged from the following quote: “If we approach this question from the standpoint of truth, scientifically, then these are not Jews, these are zhidy”¹. In other words, Mukhin lives in a world of some kind of his own science, where there exists a nationality “Jew” and a nationality “zhid”, and where there are supposedly scientific criteria for distinguishing “zhidy” from “Jews”. Presumably, Mukhin borrowed this “science” from the propagandists of Adolf Hitler, and along with it, perhaps, their polemical techniques.

What are some concrete examples of falsifications by the propagandist Yury Mukhin? Let us open his book co-authored with Alexander Shabalov, titled “Why History Textbooks Lie” and read from the very first lines:

Upon taking office as President of the United States, Kennedy stated plainly: “We cannot defeat the Soviet Union in a conventional war. It is an impregnable fortress. We can defeat the Soviet Union only by other means: ideological, psychological, propaganda, and economic”².

Now let us turn to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address of January 20, 1961, and read:

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction³.

There is no mention of war here; on the contrary, Kennedy proposes peace. The words that Mukhin and his associate attribute to Kennedy were never spoken by the American president — neither in this speech nor at any other time — and no sources exist to substantiate that they are his. Mukhin falsifies his words in order to incite interethnic hostility. And his readers — whom he assures that “history textbooks lie” (although in this case only Mukhin and his accomplice are lying) — are treated as fools to whom one can sell books filled with fabricated facts.

Let us move on to further statements by this author of such “scientific works” as “We Are Immortal! Scientific Proofs of the Soul” and “Genetics, the Harlot of Imperialism”. To begin with, let us take his book “Why the People Support Stalin”. Here is what Yury Mukhin writes there:

Let us emphasize once again: before 1941, Stalin, by virtue of his position, could not govern either the party or the people, since he was merely one of five party secretaries⁴.

Mukhin is lying: Joseph Stalin was not “merely one of five party secretaries”, but the General Secretary and at the same time a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee⁵, and accordingly headed the Secretariat of the Party’s Central Committee. Mukhin’s falsehood is contradicted by his own words from another part of the same book, where he himself writes: “Stalin effectively led the USSR for about twenty years”⁶.

Next, let us turn to Mukhin’s book “Defamed Stalin”, co-authored with Grover Furr and Alexey Golenkov:

At present, a considerable body of evidence has been uncovered confirming the correctness of the claims of Soviet propaganda of the 1930s, according to which Trotsky was connected with other oppositionists within the USSR, that he participated in a conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the Stalinist government, and that he was in contact with German and Japanese military circles. It is also documented that clandestine Trotskyist groups both outside and within the party engaged in sabotage and espionage in the USSR and spread false accusations of treason against individuals they found undesirable.

A thorough investigation of these issues, based on the source base that has only recently become available, still awaits its researcher; therefore, here we will limit ourselves to referring to General P. A. Sudoplatov and a number of reports obtained from Nazi sources, which confirm the reliability of the information he transmitted⁷.

Of course, no actual reference to General Pavel Sudoplatov is provided afterwards. This is because in the memoirs of Pavel Anatolyevich himself we find a direct and unequivocal statement:

“The so-called Trotskyist conspiracy, of which Kirov allegedly became a victim, was fabricated by Stalin himself from the very beginning”⁸.

In other words, Mukhin and his associates cite Sudoplatov, who says exactly the opposite (that the trials of the Trotskyists were fabricated). What kind of audacity does it take to so openly spit in the reader’s face, hoping they will not verify these claims? The rest of the evidence provided by Mukhin and his co-authors is of roughly the same quality. Let us continue reading:

Stalin never said that “as we move forward toward socialism, the class struggle must intensify”⁹.

Now let us turn to Joseph Stalin’s speech “On Industrialization and the Grain Problem”, delivered on July 9, 1928:

…from all this it follows that, as we advance, the resistance of capitalist elements will grow, the class struggle will intensify, and the Soviet government, whose strength will increasingly grow, will pursue a policy of isolating these elements, a policy of disintegrating the enemies of the working class, and finally a policy of suppressing the resistance of the exploiters, thereby creating the basis for the further advance of the working class and the main masses of the peasantry¹⁰.

Let us move further through the works of Yury Mukhin:

If Lenin and Stalin had not asserted this, then Trotsky might have asserted the same; but since his ambitions required original ideas, he had to take the position of crude Marxism. From these positions he first began to demand that the Russian people be used as a bundle of kindling to ignite communist revolutions in other industrially developed countries, that is, that Russian people, with their blood, should liberate the workers there from capitalist slavery¹¹.

Such “demands” by Trotsky do not exist in reality; there are no documents confirming his authorship. Mukhin repeats the well-known fabrication about the “bundle of kindling”, which falsifiers variously attribute to Lenin, Trotsky, or Bukharin — depending on whose authorship is more convenient for them. Next, Mukhin repeats the fake “Churchill speech about Stalin”:

Nevertheless, the prominent anti-communist Churchill, speaking on his own behalf and on behalf of the late President F. Roosevelt, on December 21, 1959, in his address in the House of Commons on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the already deceased Stalin, said: “It was a great fortune for Russia that in the years of the most severe trials the country was led by the genius and unshakable commander Stalin. He was the most outstanding personality, suited to our harsh and changing times in which his entire life took place.

Stalin was a man of extraordinary energy and indomitable will, sharp, harsh, and merciless in conversation, to whom even I, brought up here in the British Parliament, could oppose nothing. Above all, Stalin possessed a great sense of humor and sarcasm and an ability to grasp thoughts precisely. This strength was so great in Stalin that he seemed unique among the leaders of states of all times and peoples”¹².

Mukhin is lying again. There was no speech by Churchill in the House of Commons on December 21, 1959; and if anyone finds a real transcript of such a speech from that time, the author of this article will buy them a bottle of expensive wine and delete this article. This “speech” was invented by Nina Andreyeva in her 1988 article “I Cannot Forsake Principles”, without any reference to a source. Before that article, no one had ever heard of such a speech. Stalinists are simply mocking their readers and laughing at them, because Churchill actually said the following words: “If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons”¹³. He said this to his personal secretary Jock Colville on the evening of June 21, 1941, on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. This says a great deal about how pro-Stalinist publicists themselves actually viewed their idol when they invented this “Churchill speech”.

The falsifications of Yury Mukhin could be debunked for a very long time, but the examples above are more than sufficient to understand that he is not an objective historian, but a propagandist who fabricates facts and attempts to falsify history in the interests of the nomenklatura.

1. Y.I. Mukhin. Three Jews, or How Good It Is to Be an Engineer. – 654 p. – Krymsky Most-9D, 2010. ISBN 978-5-89747-036-5 – p. 12
2. Y.I. Mukhin, A.A. Shabalov. Why History Textbooks Lie – 256 p. – Moscow: Algoritm, 2010. – p. 4.
3. Carl Cavanagh Hodge, Cathal J. Nolan. U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy: From 1789 to the Present. 1st Edition. – 474 p. – ABC-CLIO; 1 edition (December 13, 2006). ISBN-10: 1851097902. – p. 403.
4. Y.I. Mukhin. Why the People Support Stalin. – 192 p. – St. Petersburg: Piter, 2011. – p. 45
5. Great Russian Encyclopedia – Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
6. Y.I. Mukhin. Why the People Support Stalin. – 192 p. – St. Petersburg: Piter, 2011. – p. 8.
7. Y.I. Mukhin. Defamed Stalin / Yury Mukhin, Grover Furr, Alexey Golenkov. – 256 p. – Moscow: Eksmo: Algoritm, 2010. – pp. 74–75.
8. P. Sudoplatov – Intelligence and the Kremlin
9. Y.I. Mukhin. Defamed Stalin / Yury Mukhin, Grover Furr, Alexey Golenkov. – 256 p. – Moscow: Eksmo: Algoritm, 2010. – p. 87.
10. J. Stalin – Collected Works
11. Y.I. Mukhin. Defamed Stalin / Yury Mukhin, Grover Furr, Alexey Golenkov. – 256 p. – Moscow: Eksmo: Algoritm, 2010. – p. 193.
12. Y.I. Mukhin. Defamed Stalin / Yury Mukhin, Grover Furr, Alexey Golenkov. – 256 p. – Moscow: Eksmo: Algoritm, 2010. – pp. 252–253.
13. Andrew Nagorski. The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II. — Simon & Schuster, September 18, 2007. — 384 p.