Please elaborate on this wonderful “choice” which Stalin gave the Ukrainians, but which I, in nearly three decades of study of Russian history, have never before heard.
Do you , with your expertise, have a few good links on the subject?
The 'choice' is , simple as I can make it is, a Ukrainian farmer is ordered to join a collective as all the other Russians have. He refuses. They take away his 'produce'. He and his family starves as do all the Ukrainians in the cities. Millions they say. Pick your number.
If they accepted to join, they would be no better or worse than the average Russian. But they would not all be dead.
The despicable Nazis gave the Jews no choice. They were to be gassed, no matter what they did.
To me that's a small but important distinction. It makes me believe that Hitler was far more evil than Stalin in comparing those two events.