Posted on 10/15/2013 10:31:59 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
“In 1934 a high-ranking member of the Communist Party, Sergei Kirov, was assassinated,” Cornell historian Holly Case wrote in The Chronicle Review. “His death, likely orchestrated by Stalin himself, was used to initiate a mass persecution that would result in over a million imprisoned and hundreds of thousands killed.”
“Actually, she’s a bit off on the casualty count,” we observed. ...
“The late Alexander Yakovlev, the lifelong Soviet apparatchik who in the 1980s became the chief reformer and close aide to Mikhail Gorbachev, and who, in the post-Soviet 1990s, was tasked with the grisly assignment of trying to total the victims of Soviet repression, estimated that Stalin alone was responsible for the deaths of 60 to 70 million, a stunning number two to three times higher than estimates in The Black Book of Communism,” Grove City College historian Paul Kengor has noted.
...Case wrote in a letter to us. “Many of Stalin’s victims came before that due to collectivization and dekulakization, which was likely why he initiated the Purge in the first place (to create scapegoats for those atrocities). I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge your mistake and withdraw your post, otherwise I will simply conclude that you are ideologically motivated rather than interested in the truth…not unlike Stalin, in fact. “
... the UN, never a virulently anti-Soviet source, has noted that during the Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), “It was estimated that about 25,000 Ukrainians were dying every day during the Famine. ..." & from the Russian Archives themselves, by way of the Library of Congress: “...During the ensuing Great Terror, which included the notorious show trials of Stalin’s former Bolshevik opponents in 1936-1938 and reached its peak in 1937 and 1938, millions of innocent Soviet citizens were sent off to labor camps or killed in prison.”
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Hear what? I agree the OP was wrong to not post the entire article. I’ll repeat that as many times as needed.
I have not seen a policy that the blog-police are above criticism. For example, many of blog-police initial responses now simply question if the OP is making money and neglect to even mention the infraction was excerpting. Any site visitor not familiar with FR simply see the jerk behavior. If the blog-police would at least cite the infraction, it would be a step back towards serving the role mentioned in the policy.
To preempt “they can post what they want!”... so can I.
Previous post was a reply to you, not sure why it tagged it to me.
You have a nice day.
I laughed at post 36.
Many times, I’m as interested in the FR member replies as much (or more) than the original article. When the trolling goes past the first few posts in the thread, it dilutes the content that is there and kills the discussion that is valued by this community.
I don’t have a blog... No plans for one... Not associated with any blog. Obviously, the blog police managed to annoy at least one person who isn’t a blogger.
Soon to visit us in America.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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