They will never know the true body count .
Whole regions were depopulated or deported.
Stalin murdered whole groups and whole regions in massive waves and then killed the people who killed those people.
“Stalin murdered whole groups and whole regions in massive waves and then killed the people who killed those people.”
Absolutely. Westerners cannot fathom this. Their minds cannot process the rationale behind it. It is as if it never happened. Like Libs, they reject reality which is beyond their reasoning.
Also largely absent from popular Western historical record is the mass killings by the Soviet Army on their westward advance ‘43 - ‘45. They had a strategic tactic of forcing entire city populations to advance in front of their troops during offenses to clear minefields and overwhelm German defenders. In a single battle on the Dnieper loop 250,000 civilians perished ‘assaulting’ the eastern bank in this fashion. This strategy was also followed by Mao and Giap during the Korean and Vietnam wars. It is Soviet doctrine.
>They will never know the true body count.
Maybe so, but the 3 million+ figure I posted was a modern calculation which used demographic data, including some recently accessed from Soviet archives. It was done by Stanislav Kulchytsky, if you’re curious about who.
BTW, the Ukraine wasn’t the only area hit by famine-southern Russia suffered as much, and there were other areas that were affected somewhat, like Kazakhstan and the Volga region. Ukrainians may have been the largest group affected, but they weren’t alone.