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In Defense of Historical Facts – An Open Letter Correcting B.Tromly’s Stalinist Revisionism of the Russian Diaspora ©

This “open letter” identifies and analyzes Tromly’s factual errors, disinformation, mistranslations, unsubstantiated assertions, and errors of logic; corrects fabrications of historical truth; demonstrates lapses in ethical historical research methods; and examines Tromly’s motivations for assembling a virulent paper fifty years after the death of its principal subject.
Tromly’s basic thesis, as illustrated by the title of his “case study,” is that one individual can exemplify the political and cultural characteristics of an entire group. There are two logical fallacies of group attribution error (GAE) and fundamental attribution error (FAE) in this thesis, confounding groups with individuals or individuals with groups. These are the very arguments used in spreading disinformation to stoke prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping, and to marginalize, cement control, and exclude specific groups from the larger body politic. In addition, when dealing with “memory studies”, one should take care to note that there is a fine line between researching them and creating a memory that did not exist. It is remarkably easy to cross this line, something that Tromly has managed to accomplish in his “case study”, instead of historical veracity.