Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev accused Russia of occupying both Azerbaijan and Ukraine, citing historical grievances and criticizing Moscow for worsening relations
I can do the same and dump a list of massacres and population transfers before & after the fall of the USSR and it would be far greater than all these lists combined. If so called ‘Russification’ was the goal why would Lenin and Stalin create separate constituent states for the ethnicities of the USSR? I admit that resettlement is bad, but in resolving the contradictions of creating ethnic states in a former imperialist & colonialist empire they must take steps to avoid intra-ethnic conflict between the states (Which dates back centuries), which when they stopped doing in the mid to late 80s, led to all of the conflicts seen in the former USSR today.
“According to Nicolas Werth, one of the authors of The Black Book of Communism…” are you even trying at this point?
Holodomor was a famine, common in the area for hundreds of years before the USSR, it was also the last
“An estimated 800,000 to 1,200,000 people died during the purges of the 1930s” If such a large amount of people died, can you see it in population statistics?
My point wasn’t dumping, I just wanted to show there are dedicated lists regarding USSR. Did those things happened? Yes. Did people suffer? Yes. Did millions die because of those policies? Yes. Nothing’s gonna change that. They solved their problems by doing that. That solution was the problem for others. However, victors shape the history.
Also conflict means it’s not one-sided.
By the way, I don’t know about “The Black Book of Communism”. What’s wrong with that?
Yeah sure, these would have never happened in USSR:
Also, it’s a conflict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
I can do the same and dump a list of massacres and population transfers before & after the fall of the USSR and it would be far greater than all these lists combined. If so called ‘Russification’ was the goal why would Lenin and Stalin create separate constituent states for the ethnicities of the USSR? I admit that resettlement is bad, but in resolving the contradictions of creating ethnic states in a former imperialist & colonialist empire they must take steps to avoid intra-ethnic conflict between the states (Which dates back centuries), which when they stopped doing in the mid to late 80s, led to all of the conflicts seen in the former USSR today.
“According to Nicolas Werth, one of the authors of The Black Book of Communism…” are you even trying at this point?
Holodomor was a famine, common in the area for hundreds of years before the USSR, it was also the last
“An estimated 800,000 to 1,200,000 people died during the purges of the 1930s” If such a large amount of people died, can you see it in population statistics?
Take more than a surface look at this ‘conflict’
My point wasn’t dumping, I just wanted to show there are dedicated lists regarding USSR. Did those things happened? Yes. Did people suffer? Yes. Did millions die because of those policies? Yes. Nothing’s gonna change that. They solved their problems by doing that. That solution was the problem for others. However, victors shape the history.
Also conflict means it’s not one-sided.
By the way, I don’t know about “The Black Book of Communism”. What’s wrong with that?