Re:The Kingdom of the Dead: For post-Soviet people, Crimea w...
by kafkaesq on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:01PM
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The fact that minorities survived and thrived on the same scale as Russians and got sent and taken land from on the same scale as Russians and got sent to Siberia on the same scale as Russians is a proof that there was no policy to destroy particular minority on a state level. It was a policy to destroy enemies of the state.
It is a matter of historical record beyond dispute that certain ethnic groups (e.g. Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Balts, Tatars, Cossacks, Chechen and Ingush, in particular) were murdered, deported and suffered otherwise disproportionately during Stalin's reign.
You can argue whether this was motivated out of some pure "hatred" or not -- but if so, you'd be splitting hairs.
It is a matter of historical record beyond dispute that certain ethnic groups (e.g. Ukrainians, Poles, Germans, Balts, Tatars, Cossacks, Chechen and Ingush, in particular) were murdered, deported and suffered otherwise disproportionately during Stalin's reign.
You can argue whether this was motivated out of some pure "hatred" or not -- but if so, you'd be splitting hairs.