Stalin-Era Mass Graves So Ubiquitous Russian Officials Don’t Know What to Do with Them

Eurasia - New Series ^ | Feb 26 2019

[Oshkalaboomboom]

A simple search on Spain and mass graves will bring up plenty of information on the subject. A lot of the people involved are still alive so it’s a pretty sore subject here.

[cowboyusa]

Communism is far worse, it killed more in a far shorter amount of time.

[gundog]

And that sets the stage for continued conflict; atheism vs. a religion of death.

[otness_e]

That story sounds very similar to what Brigadier Louis Grignon and General Louis Marie Turreau ordered during the Vendee, if Les 12 Colonnes infernales de Turreau by Nicolas Delahaye et Pierre-Marie Gaborit and Vendée : du génocide au mémoricide by Reynald Secher are of anything to go by. Then again, Marxism itself was derived from the gory aspects of the French Revolution by Marx and Lenin's own admission. That last bit about your description of what the Soviets did with recaptured territory or, heck, especially when capturing German, Hungarian, or Romanian territory, also reminds me a lot of this sequence from Metroid Volume 1 when the Space Pirates at Ridley's urging "cut loose" on K-2L and slaughtered everyone. Guess that means Ridley's a Soviet officer/political commissar, the Space Pirates are a bunch of Soviet soldiery, and the populace of K-2L are a bunch of Hungarian/German/Romanian citizenry, especially Romanian citizenry considering they deserved what they got from the Soviets even LESS than the Germans and Hungarians did. Just all the more reason why Soviet horrors need to be exposed, even moreso than Nazi horrors. At least we've got a LOT of Nazi horrors exposed, while with Communist horrors we get a scarce amount.

[otness_e]

In case the images don’t display despite doing everything to display them, here are where the images came from:

Image 1: http://metroid.retropixel.net/features/comics/metroidmanga/chapter1/metroid_v1_ch1_21.jpg

Image 2: http://metroid.retropixel.net/features/comics/metroidmanga/chapter1/metroid_v1_ch1_22.jpg

Image 3: http://metroid.retropixel.net/features/comics/metroidmanga/chapter1/metroid_v1_ch1_23.jpg

Image 4: http://metroid.retropixel.net/features/comics/metroidmanga/chapter1/metroid_v1_ch1_24.jpg

Image 5: http://metroid.retropixel.net/features/comics/metroidmanga/chapter1/metroid_v1_ch1_25.jpg

[otness_e]

Trying again. So, yeah, as I said, the bits about Soviet soldiers cutting loose under the permission of officers and political commissars to demoralize enemies as well as being encouraged to loot pillage, rape, and massacre civilians in captured enemy territory reminded me of the above.

[Reily]

Stalin needed to eliminate a lot of those high ranking guys because they probably had the goods on him about working for the Okhrana prior to the revolution.

[blueunicorn6]

That is a total ripoff of Green Eggs And Ham.

[otness_e]

Green Eggs and Ham didn’t involve a wholesale slaughter of people for fuel and also to “cut loose”, last I checked. That just involved... well, a grouch being a picky eater against eating literal green eggs and similarly-colored ham. This isn’t even close to similar, let alone a ripoff.

And in any case, I only showed those images because what the guy mentioned above about how Soviets did World War II and the horrors of that just reminded me of those pages.