Part was mass murder, as of the wholesale extermination of perhaps 6,500,000 "kulaks" (in effect, the better off peasants and those resisting collectivization) from 1930 to 1937,4
Conquest (1986, p. 306). "It certainly appears that a charge of genocide lies against the Soviet Union for its actions in the Ukraine. Such, at least, was the view of Professor Rafael Lemkin who drafted the [Genocide] Convention." (p. 272) The "Ukrainian famine was a deliberate act of genocide of roughly the same order of magnitude as the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War, both in the number of its victims and in the human suffering it produced."(Mace, 1986, p. 11)
Perfect.
They are all "kulaks" now?
n 2 Is Lemkin, which if BadEmpanda is to be believed said that as an offhand comment and wasn't, you know, looking into whether it was a genocide. Also, while I hate to be a debate lord "that's a logic fallacy ergo post shit", it's an appeal to authority, whether or not Lemkin made the Convention doesn't make his opinion the grand truth.
Perfect.
They are all "kulaks" now?
n 2 Is Lemkin, which if BadEmpanda is to be believed said that as an offhand comment and wasn't, you know, looking into whether it was a genocide. Also, while I hate to be a debate lord "that's a logic fallacy ergo post shit", it's an appeal to authority, whether or not Lemkin made the Convention doesn't make his opinion the grand truth.
n3 is double genocide theory.