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No offense, but curiously, those are the exact same reasons Russians tend to use to whitewash Holodomor. (Not saying you're wrong or anything)

On a related note, check out the War Against Humanity series of the World War Two channel. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4cwI-ZuDoB... Some of its videos had been shadowbanned and age-restricted by YouTube so every view and share helps.

To be fair, Russia only gives very limited access to its state archives nowadays, and Gulag record-keeping was far from stellar. Imagine what it was like trying to uncover the truth back when KGB and the Iron Curtain still existed, from inside the system in which many monstrous and inhuman events had really happened. Exaggerations seemed true and truth seemed exaggerated.

Also Holodomor by Philip Wolny and Red Famine by Anne Applebaum.