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Theodric's avatar

I don’t think Stalin tried to exterminate *races* but he absolutely tried to exterminate *classes of people*. The Holodomor wasn’t a racial purity project, but brutally suppressing a source of potential political challenge (relatively wealthy kulaks in Ukraine) was clearly seen as a positive outcome for him.

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They also were clearly trying to destroy cultures re forbidding the teaching of local languages, history, cultural events, etc. There was also definitely ethnic race factors involved in who was seen as more valuable/not as human.

Being less organized about working people until they died and being open to them potentially not dying right now if they manage impossible agricultural feats isn’t really a big humanitarian step. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Theodric's avatar

That’s a good point.

I guess part of the perception isnjust that the Nazis were so much more - blunt and efficient about it? As in Star of David patches and gas chambers vs. starvation-by-bad-central-planning.

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