Ideology
Brar defends the governments and leaders of the USSR up until the death of Stalin in 1953. In various articles and books he has documented his contention that with the advent of Khrushchev to power, the socialist economy of the USSR was gradually undermined and the basis for the restoration of capitalism was laid. He is as an unapologetic admirer of Stalin and therefore seen by some as a somewhat controversial figure.
He, along with his daughter Joti Brar, is an active member of the Stalin Society, the website of which contains articles denying Soviet wrongdoing in the Katyn Massacre, The Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor), and the Moscow trials which they blame on the Nazis, dismiss as propaganda, or describe as fair process, respectively.
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