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| averagejoel 12/10/18 5:48:42 PM #119: | bulbinking posted... https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-says-20-million-died-as-victims-of-stalin.html from the article about 20 million died in labor camps, the mortality rate in the gulags was comparable to that of prisons in other countries at the time, and the per capita rate of imprisonment, at its highest (during WW2), was comparable to that of the US today. forced collectivization, collectivization does not cause death famine famine =/= stalinism and executions. most of the executed people were trying to dissolve the state. such an offense is called treason, and most countries at the time had comparable laws against it. from Roy Medvedev's account at the end: * One million imprisoned or exiled from 1927 to 1929, falsely accused of being saboteurs or members of opposition parties. imprisonment or exile =/= death * Nine million to 11 million of the more prosperous peasants driven from their lands and another two million to three million arrested or exiled in the early 1930's campaign of forced farm collectivization. Many of these were believed to have been killed. arrest and exile =/= death (continued in next post because gamefaqs has a limit on the number of quote blocks you can have for some reason?) --- peanut butter and dick ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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