This basically is how I describe it to people. I personally do think the Bolshevik's did fuck up a lot in this time (denomadization wasn't the best idea and was very Euro-centric), but it wasn't a genocide.
It's a very dark period in Soviet history, without having to resort to any weird "soviets were trying to genociding Ukrainians" weirdness. I've never heard any explanation of why they would want to do that. Especially when a more normal explanation could still be used as a "communiam bad" argument.
This basically is how I describe it to people. I personally do think the Bolshevik's did fuck up a lot in this time (denomadization wasn't the best idea and was very Euro-centric), but it wasn't a genocide.
Yep, dark/questionable events in Soviet history are always presented in the media without context & in the least charitable framing possible.
It's a very dark period in Soviet history, without having to resort to any weird "soviets were trying to genociding Ukrainians" weirdness. I've never heard any explanation of why they would want to do that. Especially when a more normal explanation could still be used as a "communiam bad" argument.