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Re:The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice ... by aredox on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:18PM (#42935488)
Stalin starved millions of Russians to death on his own before any hostilities occured.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93...

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Re:The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice ... by Synaesthesia on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:29PM (#42936583)
There was a famine, I don't think he deliberately did that. Yes it was his stupid policies that led to it, and he certainly didn't seem to care much, but it's different to an outright plan to starve 20-30 million slavs
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Re:The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice ... by aredox on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @02:53AM (#42945349)
Oh, I guess that makes it wholly different to the people who died, then
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