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Conservative estimates state that Stalin was directly responsible for twenty million deaths.
There is no charm offensive that will “slowly change what comes to mind” when thinking of Joseph Stalin.
Well I’m no historian. I didn’t have that number. My point is that I don’t think about Stalin that much, and, without grounding, posting about how minimalist Stalin was sounds like a decently effective way to change how I view him.
It sounds like you’ve got a much more detailed understanding of Stalin than I do.
it’s very much a us-centrism position that most people from the US, meaning tankies, see Stalin. They don’t care for the Holodomor, most have never heard of it.
Anyone my age range or older would have no excuse for not knowing what kind of monster Stalin was. Anyone who has spoken to survivors who escaped his regime would never have the fucking audacity.
By comparison, Pol Pot was responsible for the killing fields in Cambodia. His murder spree is just a rounding error in Stalin’s body of work.
What about liberal estimates?
Triple that.
Isn’t that like ten holocausts?
and how many of those were invading nazis?
Stop trying to put lipstick on a pig.
“Don’t believe the victims!”
Isn’t the part of a winning charm offensive.
Any quibbling you attempt in an effort to massage the numbers just dies, when you consider that the numbers you want to fiddle with are in the fucking millions.
My point is if they have to pad the stat with millions of dead nazis, what else are they willing to lie about?
https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor
This definitely happened and killed millions.