• paholg@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You didn’t ask me for shit earlier. This is my first comment here.

    The Dust Bowl and Great Depression is a thing that happened. What occurred in Stalin’s reign is a pattern, that included famines. Were the famines specifically engineered to kill off specific groups? I don’t know. But when you take a holistic view, and look at executions, gulag assignments, forced resettlement, deportations, and, yes, famines, there was very clearly a genocide under Stalin.

    Millions of people died as a direct result of Stalin’s policies and actions. I don’t know if they were all with intent, but many definitely were.

    I don’t understand how anyone can defend Stalin. I guess people deny the Holocaust too, so there’s that.

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      Millions of people died as a direct result of Stalin’s policies and actions.

      And the dust bowl was the direct result of the US governments policies and actions, so why is only one of them “a thing that happened,” you raging hypocrite?

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        Are you capable of reading and processing information? Nevermind that the Great Depression was a worldwide catastrophe. Nevermind that it’s thousands vs millions of people. Did you notice where I talked about the larger pattern in the USSR? There wasn’t just one famine, but a shitload of things causing the deaths of millions of people, many of which were fucking executions.

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          Are you capable of reading and processing information?

          Are you?

          Nevermind that the Great Depression was a worldwide catastrophe.

          Point to where I mentioned the Great Depression.

          Nevermind that it’s thousands vs millions of people.

          What methodology did you use to determine your numbers? And why would it matter anyway? Is it not a genocide if it’s bellow a certain amount?

          There wasn’t just one famine

          Yes there was, unless you’re counting the one caused by the Nazis flattening half of it, in which case I’m just going to write you off as a Nazi apologist.

          but a shitload of things causing the deaths of millions of people, many of which were fucking executions.

          Yes, that is indeed true of the USA, so why is the Dust Bowl “Just a thing that happened”, but the famine that happened in the same time period in the USSR not?

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            1 year ago

            I’m all ears, buddy. Paint me the picture of this dust bowl genocide. My mind is open. Convince me.

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                Let’s see. 34 countries and the EU consider the Holodomor (check your spelling btw) a genocide.

                I can find… well, you, and nothing else claiming the dust bowl is a genocide.

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                  34 countries and the EU consider the Holodomor (check your spelling btw) a genocide.

                  Interesting; and when did they make this entirely non-political determination?

                  Also, that leaves 161 countries that don’t consider it a genocide. Oh, but let me guess: us-foreign-policy

                  I can find… well, you, and nothing else claiming the dust bowl is a genocide.

                  I didn’t realize that whether something was a genocide or not was decided by vote.

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                    It’s not not a vote. It’s a classification; they tend to not have perfect clear boundaries, and so one goes with the prevailing opinion of experts.

                    But let’s forget the term “genocide”. In the USSR, millions of people were intentionally killed for no good reason. That’s fucked.