Sebag Montefiore Simon & Santa: Simon Montefiore is a British “”“historian”“”, television presenter, and author of pop-“”“history”“” books and novels. Ghislaine attended the launch of Montefiore’s book, “The Court of the Red Tsar” (https://deepclips.com/clip/3225/exclusive-i-fear-i-saw-virginia-roberts-inside-jeffrey-epstein-s-creepy-new-mexico-ranch-contractor-claims). Santa is his wife and sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, who died of an ulcer in 2017. The Palmer-Tomkinson family is so close with the Royal Family that King Charles II was named Tara’s godfather. As such, Simon and Santa are good friends of King Charles II and Queen Camilla (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4721868/The-lit-girl.html). Simon’s great-great-uncle was an international financier who worked for the Rothschilds in the 1800s. Simon and his family are still close to the Rothschilds to this day (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/montefiore200801).
If you go to the Stalin or Beria pages on Wikipedia, nearly half of the most outrageous claims come from Montefiore. He alleges that Russia gave him access to the “Soviet archives” in the early 2000’s for his book Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, despite the fact that Russia denies it and they’ve never let anyone do it since.
He’s a huge Zionist “historian” who regularly denies genocide (https://www.thefp.com/p/the-intifada-comes-to-britain) and believes that all problems in the Middle East are caused by the existence of Palestinians (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/).
Agree, i have my own doubt about Beria’s liberalism (and 100% agree about Molotov or Kaganovich), but it ultimately didn’t happened*.
I’m just saying that the “broad consensus” of western communist opinion have been yet again shaped by Khrushchev and even worse, by a vile bag of semen montefiore. And while i’m not even really blaming you or me or anyone, since it’s something that even academicians of the calibre of Domenico Losurdo fallen victim to, it’s really time to stop, since it was proven hundreds of times on every topic that anticommunists just brazenly lie.
Additional fact is that Khrushchev purged opposing factions so hard (something that he accused Stalin and Beria of) that he could deliver his secret speech full of lies straight into faces of people knowing those were lies, sometimes being eyewitnesses of the events cornman lied about, but nobody really protested.
*I don’t know much about Zhdanovite faction, but Zhdanov himself was, in retrospect of 80 years, probably the most correct of them all.