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• basmati@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ethnic cleansing wasn’t a thing in the ussr, the socially progressive of the two world powers at the time. Stalin did unapologetically kill lots of Nazis though. That was good despite your Nazi apologia propaganda.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It absolutely was.

    Looking at the entire period of Stalin’s rule, one can list: Poles (1939–1941 and 1944–1945), Kola Norwegians (1940–1942), Romanians (1941 and 1944–1953), Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians (1941 and 1945–1949), Volga Germans (1941–1945), Ingrian Finns (1929–1931 and 1935–1939), Finnish people in Karelia (1940–1941, 1944), Crimean Tatars, Crimean Greeks (1944) and Caucasus Greeks (1949–50), Kalmyks, Balkars, Italians of Crimea, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Karapapaks, Far East Koreans (1937), Chechens and Ingushs (1944). Shortly before, during and immediately after World War II, Stalin conducted a series of deportations on a huge scale which profoundly affected the ethnic map of the Soviet Union.[27] It is estimated that between 1941 and 1949 nearly 3.3 million were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics.[28] By some estimates, up to 43% of the resettled population died of diseases and malnutrition.[29]

    …wikipedia.org/…/Population_transfer_in_the_Sovie…

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    • basmati@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow, look, a list of people who’s lives got immeasurably better when moved to places with jobs, food, and shelter instead of being left to die in war torn areas of the union. Thanks for proving yourself wrong.

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