On a related note, most people talk about 6 mil Jews killed in WW2, and that was a true tragedy. Most don't talk about 20 mil Russians (conservative estimates) killed in WW2. And, estimates also include around 7.5 mil Germans & Austrians (civilians & military) dead during same war -- not 100% accurate numbers, but by many estimates I can find online still pretty accurate to put the numbers into perspective (Am not favoring any particular grp).
Putin is still grappling with the depopulation problems
The fight between the Germans and the Russians changed the genetic make up of both populations
Lots of crazy things went down as that war was nearing its end.
Last night on AHC I watched a show about “The real Inglorious Bastards”. The nazi leadership at Innsbruck surrendered to Hans Wijnberg who they had been torturing less than 24 hours earlier.
“Most don’t talk about 20 mil Russians (conservative estimates) killed in WW2.”
Not to mention the, what, 40 mil Russians killed by Stalin. . .
There is a difference between genocide and war.
In war people get killed, the larger the war (and WWII was the largest) the more die.
Genocide is murder. People are rounded up on the basis of their religion, names entered into ledgers, photographs taken, and they are fed into a vast mechanism designed to murder them in cold blood. All done as a formal part of deliberate government policies and actions.
Don’t you think six million killed in the prosecution of a war is quite different than six million murdered one-by-one by an organized government with specific policies, based on either their religion, ethnicity, or color of skin?
Sure, a dead person is a dead person, but don’t you think 50,000 men, women, and children of all races and creeds killed in automobile accidents in the USA has quite a different meaning than 50,000 people getting a bullet in the back of the head, courtesy of a government, because they are Jewish?
I don’t mean to lecture here, so I apologize if it comes off that way, but there IS a significant difference.
The death of non-combat humans in warfare is tragic, sometimes necessary, sometimes not, and occasionally evil.
The orchestrated death of humans by a government because of their religious belief or color of skin is always evil. Always.
Half of 20 million Russians were really “Russians” either.