“People” shouldn’t be put in quotes here. They weren’t some incomprehensible Lovecraftian entities, they were humans and people just like everyone. That’s what’s makes their evil all the more horrifying.
Not only that, but we can see with our very own eyes in real time how easily the masses can get whipped up into a frenzy of hate by dehumanizing entire populations.
I know that I’m nitpicking but I have the urge to mention that that photograph is missing hundreds of thousands of adherents to non‐German variants of fascism.
Yeah but Ukronazis have been whitewashed, get with the program.
Also Ukrainian Nazism is actually pretty cool, I mean they're not literally nazis SS Hitler. Sure their greatest hero massacred a ton of Jewish people, and there's black and white footage of even average Ukrainians participating in pogroms themselves, but there's nuance man, nuance. You gotta respect the nuance.
He personally shot them. Thankfully they were already lined up in rank and file so Stalin saved on bullets by aiming just right
Remake that bad Wanted movie keeping everything the same but replacing Angelina Jolie with Stalin
I'll have you know that stalin personally gulaged my iphone, vuvuzela 9000 dead and took my father's slaves. Still think communism is cool? Guess again.
Really, who?
Some argue it was intentional, others argue it was effectively colossal mismanagement and incompetence, and most seem to think it was a degree of both of those.
What part of 'Millions starved to death after Stalin directed a massive restructuring of the agricultural system of Ukraine' narrative are liberal historians taking issue with?
Some argue it was intentional
Yeah, that "some" are the Nazis and other rabid anti-communists with zero evidence
most seem to think it was a degree of both of those
Given the fact that all serious historians admit there is no evidence of any intent, that is a bare faced lie.
Let's not rehash this same topic for the millionth time, it's been discussed ad nauseam: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1155
What never ceases to amaze me is the sheer shameless hypocrisy of anti-communists. So quick to attribute every problem in socialist countries to socialism or its leaders, yet when something of equivalent magnitude like the Great Depression happens which also produces millions of victims you never attribute it to "colossal mismanagement and incompetence", let alone genocidal intent. Even when such intent is quite clearly demonstrable like in the famines in colonized Ireland, colonized India and many other instances in the global south where colonialism, imperialism and capitalism have and continue to murder many millions more than socialism ever has... But under capitalism that's just an unfortunate natural occurrence i suppose.
The best argument I heard that busts the whole narrative open is that you never hear about the famines that happened in the nearby areas. Turns out the one thing that gave Ukraine special attention over the other places is, lo and behold, that there were a fuck ton of nazis there.