• GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Europe sucks ass. Sorry literally everybody else who was historically hurt by those famines, which afflicted the entirety of the USSR, especially Kazakhstan.

    EDIT: Sorry to Jewish people too --

    https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

    https://spme.org/spme-research/analysis/clemens-heni-the-prague-declaration-antisemitism-with-a-democratic-face/7822/

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      That top article was interesting. It's a good read, but if you don't have time I'll sum it up with two main ideas:

      1. The Soviet repression against perpetrators of the holocaust and other rightwingers was brutal, and sometimes innocent people were caught up in it, but it is not equal to the holocaust. History shouldn't be rewritten around a false assumption of moral equivalence.

      2. There would be a lot of pushback around this re-writing of history to equate communism with the holocaust, but 6 million of the jews that could speak against it were killed. The only voices left are the perpetrators and their sympathizers.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'm increasingly convinced that much of Europe is just extremely anti-semitic and aren't that bothered by complaints about anti-semitism