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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 weeks agoOkay, but even if you remove the ~6 million deaths from the holodomor, he still remains responsible for the ~800k executions and ~1.5 M gulag deaths. I’m not sure what’s so difficult to understand about that.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You seem to think I denied those numbers rather than being the person who pasted them to you.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No, but you keep talking past them.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Past the numbers I told you about.
I’m done here - you’re having a conversation with yourself at this point. I addressed the topic I addressed (the deaths from starvation Lysenkoism caused).
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That’s immaterial. Stalin probably didn’t execute any of those 800k people himself, but he’s still responsible because he ordered their deaths. Likewise, it was him who put Lysenko into a position of power where he could cause the holodomor, so he’s at least partly responsible.
It’s as if you’re arguing Hitler wasn’t responsible for Mengele’s torture experiments because it wasn’t him who was conducting them.