“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.
Look at what Stalin did to the leaders of the defense of Leningrad.
Or the returning Red Army prisoners of war, “Operation Keelhaul” is a stain on Eisenhower’s legacy.
then those thousands of soviet troops were sent to death camps by Stalin because they knew what happen so these facts were never told to there families and friends and tgeybexposed to thevwest.
I am shocked how many uneducated posters who think Putin is just great.
and why not just give him Crimea .
These people just left evil Russian tyranny and dragged back under it again.
He is a monster who rose up in the KGB by enslavening the East German population.