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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Modern estimates tend closer to 3-5 million, but 1984 was before the opening of the Soviet archives to researchers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    what I really meant is that it's quite a bullshit. Stalinist repressions affected a wide range of nationalities and likely total around a million. this includes dekulakization which was pretty much a necessity given the economic circumstances. the number of Ukrainians affected is unlikely to be in millions (I also don't think it's morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country). I think often the people mix up the # of deaths during the famine with Stalin's repressions, which is quite a stretch, since the former was really hard to avoid given the damages done during the civil war.

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    I also don't think it's morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country

    They were all Russian, so fuck 'em? That statement is confusing, to say the least.

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