Russia has a history of mass murdering their own people
***Brandon**” has a history of mass murdering ***his**” own people.
Fixed that fer ye.
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Re:”Russia has a history of mass murdering their own people”
Yeah, a lot of Americans believe that. It’s certainly true that the Soviets were in the running for the biggest mass murderers of all time.
Thing is: while the Soviets controlled Russia, and are generally associated with “Russia” in the minds of many, the Soviets, at least the people in charge, were NOT RUSSIAN.
With the partial exception of Lenin (partially Russian at most), none of the famous evil Soviets, from Stalin, to Trotsky, to Felix Dzerzhinsky, to Lazar Kaganovich, to Genrich Yagoda, et cetera et cetera, were Russian. Even Brezhnev and Khrushchev were not Russian (those last two were Ukrainian, which is interesting given current history).
The huge mass slaughters in Russia in the 20th century were not “Russia mass murdering their own people,” but non-Russians mass murdering ... well, everyone in the area, including Russians, Ukrainians, Greeks, Chechens, Ingush, and more.
If what I just wrote is true ... and I think it is ... then perhaps that puts a slightly different spin on Russians and Russia. There’s a case to be made that Russians were the most numerous victims of foreigners who, by means which included trickery, deceit, and questionable “elections,” took over the lands in which the Russians lived, then wantonly slaughtered huge numbers of Russians. Along with lots of others.
Maybe there’s a lesson there for contemporary Americans.
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