About: Douglas Tottle

Douglas Tottle (born 1944, believed to have died 2003 or earlier) was a Canadian trade union activist and journalist, author of Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard. Tottle asserts that the idea that the Holodomor was intentionally created by the Soviet government originated from propaganda spread by former Nazis, anti-communists and Ukrainian nationalists, sometimes posing as academics in Canadian universities. Tottle's critics regard him as a "Soviet apologist", or a "denunciator" of the famine. Tottle has been defended by the Stalin Society, author Jeff Coplon, and the Swedish Communist Party, who insist that his book is valid historical research that exposed the "myth of the famine-genocide [...] once and for all". Tottle's work was submitted t