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Well said. I just say fuck the population transfers full-stop; and then ask "now what?" it usually stops people in their tracks who need people to crumble or deny when faced with bad shit. Deny them that binary when it comes to crimes and atrocities.
But yeah the shit about acting like the USSR had achieved social progression or something and then Stalin reversed it is so cheap and anti-materialist. Stalin pandered to the church for support during WW2 and with so many movers and shakers dead from the purges. The conservative institutions were deemed acceptable allies for the time. Doesn't justify it, doesn't mean all his or soviet societies more conservative tendencies are because of that at all, but it is part of the process that led to a roll back on a lot of socially progressive stuff
Well said. I just say fuck the population transfers full-stop; and then ask "now what?" it usually stops people in their tracks who need people to crumble or deny when faced with bad shit. Deny them that binary when it comes to crimes and atrocities.
But yeah the shit about acting like the USSR had achieved social progression or something and then Stalin reversed it is so cheap and anti-materialist. Stalin pandered to the church for support during WW2 and with so many movers and shakers dead from the purges. The conservative institutions were deemed acceptable allies for the time. Doesn't justify it, doesn't mean all his or soviet societies more conservative tendencies are because of that at all, but it is part of the process that led to a roll back on a lot of socially progressive stuff