7mil Ukrainians. wow, that’s a number
Modern estimates tend closer to 3-5 million, but 1984 was before the opening of the Soviet archives to researchers.
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.
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.
nearly all of diaspora, descendants of volunteer ww2 nazis fleeing USSR war crimes “persecutions”