So, 50% evaluate the role of Stalin on the war as positive and 32% say it was kinda positive. I hate having to defend 'Putin' of all people, but in no way there's a poll showing what they are claiming to be showing. This article is so dishonest in so many ways that it doesn't surprise that Americans know nothing about Russia. fell during the WWll (the Russian Great Patriotic War '41-45), it's difficult to find a family in Russia who hadn't at least one death in their family during the war.Īrticle is the perfect example of Western propaganda. I know (at least talked to/worked with) ~hundreds of Russians and have personally never met any among them whose relatives were 'killed' or at least in some way 'repressed' by Stalin. 1/3-1/5 'having family relatives killed by Stalin' (later on the population growing but the proportion still stable). it must be roughly speaking 1/8 or 1/9, you can imagine how many relatives they had thus making it ca. Population of the USSR in '39 (the hardest repression years '37-41) was 170 mn., if Stalin 'killed' 20 mn.

Obviously a crooked myth a-la 'vodka, balalaika, bomba, bear, STALIN, aren't you still fucking scared you scoundrel?!'. No much I can say here besides the similarity to Nazi anti-semitism.ĭude, that sociopath wasn't even Russian, dude was Georgian, What they celebrate is not who he killed but the elevation of the Union from a bunch of rag tag revolutionaries but to one of the greatest entities that ever existed. According to Patai and Patai, the Doctors' plot was 'clearly aimed at the total liquidation of Jewish cultural life.' Communist antisemitism under Stalin shared a common characteristic with Nazi and fascist antisemitism in its belief in 'Jewish world conspiracy'. The Stalinist antisemitic campaign ultimately culminated in the Doctors' plot in 1953. The Soviet press accused the Jews of 'groveling before the West,' helping 'American imperialism,' 'slavish imitation of bourgeois culture' and 'bourgeois aestheticism.' Victimization of Jews in the USSR at the hands of the Nazis was denied, Jewish scholars were removed from the sciences and emigration rights were denied to Jews. Terms like 'rootless cosmopolitans', 'bourgeois cosmopolitans', and 'individuals devoid of nation or tribe' (all of which were codewords for Jews) appeared in newspapers. In this campaign against the 'rootless cosmopolitan', many leading Jewish writers and artists were killed. In his speech titled 'On Several Reasons for the Lag in Soviet Dramaturgy' at a plenary session of the board of the Soviet Writers' Union in December 1948, Alexander Fadeyev equated the cosmopolitans with the Jews. Here is the wikipedia of Anti-semitism in the Soviet Union.Īntisemitism in the Soviet Union commenced openly as a campaign against the 'rootless cosmopolitan' (a supposed euphemism for 'Jew'). Is there not a similarity that might make you rethink your position? Here is a Nazi depiction as Jews being an octopus grasping the world. Here is a picture of Soviet propaganda depicting Jews as being octopus grasping the world. That said celebrating a war criminal that victimized other groups of people is not acceptable either, no matter whether there is a justifiable hatred for Stalin or not. Regardless of intention the result was a massive crime against humanity. Unlike some claims it wasn't specifically to kill of Ukrainians per se, but a poorly planned and executed grain confiscation to make money to fund industrialization the end result though was disproportionate loss of life for Ukrainians. They were specifically targeted due to being the main grain producing region. You're right, but Ukraine had it worse specifically: People were dying all over the USSR, but Ukraine was special snowflake for some reason? Not Stalin specifically, but the Soviets: I'm sorry when did it happened? That invasion. Untimed bans may be lifted when the moderators are confident that you will not continue to infringe on the community rules. Violation of our rules may result in a ban from this subreddit.

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