• vexikron@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    Really, who?

    Some argue it was intentional, others argue it was effectively colossal mismanagement and incompetence, and most seem to think it was a degree of both of those.

    What part of ‘Millions starved to death after Stalin directed a massive restructuring of the agricultural system of Ukraine’ narrative are liberal historians taking issue with?

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      10 months ago

      Some argue it was intentional

      Yeah, that “some” are the Nazis and other rabid anti-communists with zero evidence

      most seem to think it was a degree of both of those

      Given the fact that all serious historians admit there is no evidence of any intent, that is a bare faced lie.

      Let’s not rehash this same topic for the millionth time, it’s been discussed ad nauseam: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1155

      What never ceases to amaze me is the sheer shameless hypocrisy of anti-communists. So quick to attribute every problem in socialist countries to socialism or its leaders, yet when something of equivalent magnitude like the Great Depression happens which also produces millions of victims you never attribute it to “colossal mismanagement and incompetence”, let alone genocidal intent. Even when such intent is quite clearly demonstrable like in the famines in colonized Ireland, colonized India and many other instances in the global south where colonialism, imperialism and capitalism have and continue to murder many millions more than socialism ever has… But under capitalism that’s just an unfortunate natural occurrence i suppose.

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      The best argument I heard that busts the whole narrative open is that you never hear about the famines that happened in the nearby areas. Turns out the one thing that gave Ukraine special attention over the other places is, lo and behold, that there were a fuck ton of nazis there.

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        10 months ago

        Source?

        There were a ‘fuck ton’ of Nazis in Ukraine from 1931 to 1933?

        You are telling me Ukraine was full of Nazis during a time period nearly totally before the Enabling Act, while all the Nazis were streetfighting in Germany and devoting all their resources to taking over the German Societt and Government, that they sent fucktons of their membership over to the Soviet Union to… do unspecified things, and that Stalin and the Bolsheviks either did not notice this or were not displeased enough by this to not ally with Hitler to allow him to take France and the low countries and split up Poland less than a decade later?

        Stalin, who was famously in disbelief that Hitler reneged on his pact with him due to apparently actually trusting him to some degree, this same Stalin either did not notice or did not mind a fuck ton of Nazis causing a famine that killed millions in his country?

        ???

        And I mean source as in like any kind of historical documentation of this, or a comprehensive review of such evidence published in some way, not some zany idea some internet tankie made up as fanfiction for their alternate reality novel.