• morninbru@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    what I really meant is that it’s quite a bullshit. Stalinist repressions affected a wide range of nationalities and likely total around a million. this includes dekulakization which was pretty much a necessity given the economic circumstances. the number of Ukrainians affected is unlikely to be in millions (I also don’t think it’s morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country). I think often the people mix up the # of deaths during the famine with Stalin’s repressions, which is quite a stretch, since the former was really hard to avoid given the damages done during the civil war.

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      3 days ago

      I also don’t think it’s morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country

      They were all Russian, so fuck 'em? That statement is confusing, to say the least.