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To: WayneS
Putin is not Stalin. It's murky to me what actually happened.

Do you , with your expertise, have a few good links on the subject?

The 'choice' is , simple as I can make it is, a Ukrainian farmer is ordered to join a collective as all the other Russians have. He refuses. They take away his 'produce'. He and his family starves as do all the Ukrainians in the cities. Millions they say. Pick your number.

If they accepted to join, they would be no better or worse than the average Russian. But they would not all be dead.

The despicable Nazis gave the Jews no choice. They were to be gassed, no matter what they did.

To me that's a small but important distinction. It makes me believe that Hitler was far more evil than Stalin in comparing those two events.

60 posted on 02/19/2015 8:28:33 PM PST by duckln
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To: duckln

While not my favorite source, the Wikipedia article on Stalin’s pre-planned and intentional famine in the Ukraine is actually not bad.

There are also several good books that cover the subject. What you DO NOT want to do is read contemporary New York Times articles on the subject. Their “Pulitzer prize winning “ reporter at the time was nothing but an apologist for, and supporter of, Joseph Stalin. His reporting on the Ukrainian famine is a work of fiction.

The bottom line is, most of those who “complied” as you put it got nothing for their servitude but the “choice” of starving at a slower rate than those who stood against totalitarianism.

Your false analogy with the slaughter of Jews in Nazi Germany is reprehensible and I think you should seriously reconsider positing it in the future.


68 posted on 02/20/2015 4:27:22 AM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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