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potatolord said:
That's not true, and by a long way.

Germany murdered around 6 million in the death camps. They murdered another 3 million or so Soviet POWs, mostly through a policy of deliberate starvation.

The GULAG death toll under stalin was around 2 million.

If the Soviet famines get thrown into the mix, then it's fair to include all excess deaths in German occupied areas- and their total would morre or less double.
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Germany murdered 9 million then by your numbers?
A quick Google suggests Stalin killed 20 million in labor/concentration camps, so yes Russia comes off worse in this comparison.
 
robfosters said:
I think you’ll find a lot of non racist decent folk actually would agree on the self flagellation over history part. How long do we have to grovel, beg forgiveness and feel awful about ourselves over something which none of us had anything to do with.
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That's a strawman representation of my point. I was highlighting the inconsistency. I'm sure you will find decent people that argue for one approach, and decent people that argue for the other approach. But the people you find that argue for one approach sometimes, and the other approach at other times? - They're not decent.

If you believe we shouldn't respect history, fine. Just be sure to apply that approach fairly, across the board.
 
Hook said:
No, this could be why Russians has a high support for the war - In richer Moscow area :) They see themselves as superior to the southern/eastern people in Russia, dagistan etc etc.
Putin was and is signing up (forceing) cannon fodder in the really poor areas of the Country, in the field the military sends them in first, they're cannon fodder, the "superior slavic" Russians sends in the trash first.
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Reminds me of the Roman's, they would send in slaves as cannon fodder
 
andybird123 said:
Germany murdered 9 million then by your numbers?
A quick Google suggests Stalin killed 20 million in labor/concentration camps, so yes Russia comes off worse in this comparison.
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That Google is out by an order of magnitud. Edit: as regards Gulag deaths

Edit: I've just checked and it seems there is a huge range of excess mortality under stalin, depending on who you believe.
 
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potatolord said:
That's not true, and by a long way.

Germany murdered around 6 million in the death camps. They murdered another 3 million or so Soviet POWs, mostly through a policy of deliberate starvation.

The GULAG death toll under stalin was around 2 million.

If the Soviet famines get thrown into the mix, then it's fair to include all excess deaths in German occupied areas- and their total would morre or less double.
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i’m not sure you can suggest murdering 2M people vs 6M is less of a war crime..
 
Head of Russian central bank tried to resign and Putin said no.

NATO talking a lot about chemical weapons. Russia also talking again about nukes. Seems like Russia is going to escalate again.
 
Regarding Stalin repressions one would need to do more than just a quick google. The question is highly politicised (read: twisted for propaganda) due to cold war. Lately a lot of people with little history knowledge like to write that Stalin was worse than Hitler or Communism was worse than Nazi ideology. All these claims are not really grounded in historic reality but rather just an emotional response to current events.

Furthermore, the whole argument where killing more people makes something worse is also a bit pointless. Like Stalin repressions killed like 2-3m without counting famines. That's bad enough, you do not have to have more deaths under your belt to conclude that such a form of governance is not good. The main point is that he was killing people to achieve political goals - dekulakization, great purges, deportations.

Hitler was killing people just for being born a certain ethnicity. Not only jews but also slavs and various other ethnicities were considered sub-human and hence due to be exterminated through industrial machinery.

Including famines for Stalin we're looking at 7-10m and for Hitler, just for the damage he did to the Soviet Union we can see 10m civilians alone then what around 10 more million combatants and that's without going for jews and POWS exterminated in camps. Hitler did a lot more in a much shorter time than Stalin and for far more sinister reason.

And to get back on topic. I highly doubt that head of Russian bank wanted to resign because that's not what a responsible economist would do in such dire times. This is not the time to jump ship, whether you despise the regime or not she is crucial in stabilising an economy on which 145m of people depend.
 
delta0 said:
Head of Russian central bank tried to resign and Putin said no.

NATO talking a lot about chemical weapons. Russia also talking again about nukes. Seems like Russia is going to escalate again.
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The nuke talk is likely because that is the only threat Russia has left.

After seeing how they have handled Ukraine, any threat from them to Nato in terms of conventional warfare is utterly laughable. Also, economicly, the west is extremely united and will be able to counter/live with anything Russia does.

All they have for posturing is their nuclear weapons. They are a laughing stock otherwise.
 
NickK said:
i’m not sure you can suggest murdering 2M people vs 6M is less of a war crime..
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Well, technically, the GULAG deaths are not a war crime.

Anyway, I'm going too far off topic here.

Will be interesting to see how POWs are being handled in this conflict. There must be some, but I haven't seen much about that.
 
Magic_x_uk said:
I'm surprised this has gone on so long now and Russia has not used more stronger weapons
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Poor planning and bad assumptions.

There may have been a genuine belief that some areas would have welcomed them.

Allied to that, the Russians may have wrongly estimated both their own strength and that of Ukraine.

The military historians will have a field day with this one.
 
My head hurts, a family member seriously just posted a tucker Carlson & madjid nawaz clip on our wattsapp group. in I guess, an attempt to discredit support for Ukraine.

they both have such punchable faces, this timeline is just weird, I would pay not too listen anything that comes out of tuckers mouth. propaganda is working.
 
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