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Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 12 hours agoBy it being systemic policy, what do you mean it? What policy, specifically, and in what timeframe?
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Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 12 hours agoBy it being systemic policy, what do you mean it? What policy, specifically, and in what timeframe?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
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Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
So, grain requisitions? I never denied that those happened, I denied that it was used as a tool to oppress farmers. You also keep conflating Kulaks and non-landowning peasants, which is bad analysis.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Considering the systemic and politically motivated oppression and political terror and taking all their food, leaving them to starve, torturing people on the suspicion of not giving all of their grain etc just “grain requisitions” is pretty wild.’
But for the promised quotes, this is the first I came accross from the book “Stalin - A New Biography of a Dictator” by Khlevniuk, Oleg V. (2015)
And so on.
It’s a good book and very approachable.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
So, as I had predicted, the only sources for intentionality against Ukrainians are a few personal remarks by Stalin in some obscure letter to a writer. I literally called this out before you brought up your comment because if there were any further evidence, it would be plastered all over, since there are BIG reasons for western propaganda to promote Russophobia and anticommunist sentiment now that Ukraine is an ideological hotbed.
Also, your source doesn’t discriminate between Kulaks and non-landowning peasants, again as I called you out for in another comment. Funnily enough the only numerical evidence in your source supports my thesis: that the regions most affected by the grain requisitions were the main grain-producing regions, including Ukraine and the Caucasus but also Southern Russia (not mentioned because you don’t care about Russians dying).