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Grover Furr's RateMyProfessors.com reviews (hexbear.net)

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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Furr's Natopedia page is wild. The very first line:

Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University who is best known for his revisionist views regarding the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin.

And the edit history is a war zone. The 2 most recent changes are someone rewording a sentence to make it less biased:

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Furr has written books, papers, and articles about Soviet history, especially the Stalin era, in which he has stated that the Holodomor, the 1932–33 ~~government-created~~ famine in Soviet Ukraine, was not deliberate, describing it as a fiction created by pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists	Furr has written books, papers, and articles about Soviet history, especially the Stalin era, in which he has stated that the Holodomor, the 1932–33 famine in Soviet Ukraine, was not deliberate, describing the story of it being deliberate as a fiction created by pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists

with edit summary Word correction - could have previously be interpreted as famine denial, made the language less biased.. Within 4 minutes, it was undone, with edit summary Previous version appeared more neutral.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I do these edits all the time all over socialist articles. I just write in "does not conform to wikipedia NPOV rules, biased language removed".

I use the abbreviation to sound all official wikipedian legalese and make people think twice about reverting lmao

[-] edge@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Of course fucking Mzajac/Michael Z is on that page. He defends pro-Western narratives about Ukraine all over Wikipedia.

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Mzajac is such a fucking asshole to every editor he interacts with. He's been pulled into ANI so many times, and people are like "why is he still an admin". I do think that the war in Ukraine broke his brain tho, since he's been so much more unhinged and aggressive since then.