Who the Hell is Nellie Ohr???
Nellie Hauke Ohr (b. August 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian holocaust denier.
Nellie Ohr sent emails regarding Natalia Veselnitskaya to Robert Otto – State Department – Bureau of Intelligence and Research specializing in Russia.
Nellie Ohr graduated from Harvard University in 1983 with a degree in history and Russian literature, studied in the Soviet Union in 1989, and obtained a Ph.D. front Stanford University in Russian history in 1990.
Nellie Ohr was Professor of Russian Studies at Vasser College during 90's. Edward Baumgartner (hired by Fusion to work w ithe Natalia Veselnitskaya & Christopher Steele) studied at Vasser (Russian Studies) this time. Nellie Ohr was a conduit between Steele/Fusion and Bruce Ohr/DOJ.
Nellie Ohr's Ph.D. thesis is titled “Collective farms and Russian peasant society, 1933-1937: the stabilization of the kolkhoz order”.
According the The American Spectator:
“Kolkhoz” order means “collective farm” order, so Ohr’s subtitle refers to the “stabilization” of the collective farm order. The phrasing alone is suggestive of some silverish lining after the six million or more people were killed by Stalin’s state-created famine, mass deportations, and general war of “de-kulakization.”
In the introduction to her 418-page paper, Ohr sets forth her main arguments, citing many of “revisionism’s” leading figures — J. Arch Getty, Roberta Manning, Gabor Rittersporn, Sheila Fitzpatrick.
Speaking “revisionist” lingo, Nellie Ohr turns the millions killed by Stalin into “excesses,” which, in Ohr’s words, “sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country.” (Poor Stalin.) She depicts purges as representing “to some degree a center-periphery conflict in which the ‘state-building’ central government tried to bring headstrong local satraps under control.”
Here, in full context, are the “revisionist” trends she says her thesis will “corroborate”:
Recently, Western historians [i.e., "revisionists”] have been using materials from the Smolensk archive to back up their arguments that power flowed not only from the top down but also from the bottom up to some degree; that excesses [i.e. state sponsored mass murder] sometimes represented desperate measures taken by a government that had little real control over the country; that policies such as dekulakization and the purges of the later 1930s had some social constituency among aggrieved groups of poorer peasants; and that the purges represented to some degree a center-periphery conflict in which the ‘state-building’ central government tried to bring headstrong local satraps under control.