The forgotten Holocaust: How Stalin starved four million to death

Daily Mail ^

[TigerClaws]

One day in the summer of 1933, in a village in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, a little boy woke on top of the family stove. He was starving — not just hungry but genuinely starving. ‘Dad, I want to eat! Dad!’ he cried. But the house was cold and from his father there came no answer. The boy went over to his father, who was apparently still asleep. There was ‘foam under his nose’, he remembered. ‘I touched his head. Cold.’

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[TigerClaws]

The New York Times has yet to retract its stories of the era praising Stalin.

Major props to Trump today for calling out socialism and communism as failures.

[nickcarraway]

Hypocrite. Why doesn’t he oppose socialism in this country? Because it profits him.

[a fool in paradise]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1000696/posts
Ed Asner claims that Joseph Stalin was “misunderstood”!
2003

Ed Asner, the ultra-socialist actor, was recently asked if he had the chance to play the biographical story of a person from history whom he respected the most in his lifetime, who would it be? His answer:

“I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood,” said Asner. “And to this day, I don’t think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin.”

[dsc]

Four million? That number just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

[Billthedrill]

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the 20 Million. Martin Amis's indictment of Stalin and his defenders, one of whom was Amis's own father, one of whom was, for a time, his friend Christopher Hitchens. There were Soviet records, there were eyewitnesses, and still they refused to believe.

[Fiji Hill]

Caveat lector Anne Applebaum is a rabid Never-Trumper.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The conflict between Hitler and Stalin that started with Barbarossa ended with Hitler’s death, which was a blessing for the world. It’s a pity that it couldn’t have also ended Stalin’s life - as it is, he continued on for years after the end of WWII, taking countless more lives as he devoured Eastern Europe.

[Slyfox]

I have a friend who escaped Ukraine as an older child. He said that the commies went into people’s homes and took food out of their cupboards.

[Widget Jr]

ForYourChildren listed some recent NYT articles about communism/socialism here Trump Stuns U.N. Chamber: The Problem in Venezuela Is ‘Socialism Has Been Faithfully Implemented’. No links, cut and paste urls.

[Impy]

1)Mao
2)Stalin
3)Hitler

In terms of how many they murdered.

[Repeal 16-17]

The New York Times has yet to retract its stories of the era praising Stalin.

Why would it? The Slimes feels the same way about Comrade Stalin as it did in the 1930s.

[kiryandil]

“I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood,” said Asner. “And to this day, I don’t think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin.”

Wonder how Assholener would play the scene where Stalin tasked Vasily Blokhin with personally murdering 7,000 Polish military prisoners to ensure the subjugation of a future Polish nation.

Asner should get a nice interview with Lucille...

[Steely Tom]

1)Mao
2)Stalin
3)Hitler

In terms of how many they murdered.

The "deep greens" of our time desire to "depopulate" Earth. They are thinking in terms of multiple billions.

[buffaloguy]

During this period as well as in the 1920s there was cannibalism. It was a truly desperate situation.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Article about Pete Seeger - Stalin's Songbird - in, of all places, The Guardian! Go figure. I guess they employ a token conservative columnist.

[laplata]

Four million? That number just keeps getting smaller and smaller.

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It certainly does.

Stalin was as evil as Hitler.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Although it's not mentioned in the book review, Ukraine in the 30s was I think the only place to ever see a large outbreak of deaths by black mold. They were so starved that they ate moldy grains from the fields, and so ingested huge amounts of black mold and died by the thousands, if not the tens of 1000s.

The legacy of that statistic is still seen today in the US, when mold-removal outfits try to scare you into spending 5 figures on mold mitigation procedures to your home (replace all carpet, drywall, subfloor, etc) by telling you of the huge numbers of people who have "died from black mold," not mentioning that nearly 100% of those deaths were from the Ukraine and similar starving populaces.

[SunkenCiv]

Probably of interest?.

[DIRTYSECRET]

If Ukraine had been free all this time would they be a corrupt nation not worth standing up for?

[Widget Jr]

Ed Asner claims that Joseph Stalin was “misunderstood”!

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Major Soviet Paper Says 20 Million Died As Victims of Stalin was published by the NYT in 1989.