Not challenging the closing of Stalin, but it ended with a number of people putting points to me.
May I answer please.

Jim,
On both threads he became contemptuous of those who disagreed with him

Not true I never did.
All I ever said was that some historians differ, and they do.
I never expressed any opinion about the famine at all.

Puzzled, I have read no Irish history books, but plenty of statements by historians some of which I have quoted, challenging Jim's view.

The Emeritus Professor of economic and social history, Queens Belfast, said "no reputable historian" believes that.

Musket, when discussing history beyond living memory, historians are the only source.