SolomonVII
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It is an open question whether or not Stalin intended to exterminate the Ukranians or not. The mass starvation was more than just incompetence.I'd agree that there is not much redeeming about the Soviet system though even authors of books on the Gulag point out that it did not have the immovable racial barriers that the Nazi camps had - whilst I know all about the removal of the Volga Germans, Chechens, Tartars etc to various parts of the USSR in appalling conditions (and some Russians are certainly racist). I don't think i've ever seen it suggested that even someone as horrible as Stalin had planned or intended the utter obliteration of the Chechen or Tartar peoples in the way that the Nazis clearly planned to kill off every Jewish person at Wannsee. Having recently been to Russia, its the Russian people I admire in WW2 (rather than Communism).
I'd agree that to an extent certain people have helped give the USSR a soft ride in history - but also for many i think its that the ideals of communism were good its the implementation that was horrid - whereas 99% of the ideals of Nazism were horrible (except to racist militarists) in the first place.
As far as the ideals of communism being good, when it comes to class warfare, I am not a big fan. Communists extermininating entire classes of people is very much related to Hitler exterminating the banking class, aka the Jew, who thought to be oppressing the Germans through economic manipulations.
Communism and Nazism are pretty much two sides to the same coin in many respects. I have nothing good to say about either of them.
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