Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "I Used To Like Putin A Lot #putin" video.
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Interesting thing many surprisingly do not know. But the USSR conducted the largest and most successful ethnic cleansing in European history. To a degree it would likely of made even Hitler proud if he was the one that achieved it. I know a few million Baltic peoples, somewhere between 8-14 million ethnic Germans. I have no idea the number of Cossacks, Tatars and other minorities, but I know many Cossacks preferred to commit suicide than fall into the hands of the Soviets. But even before WWII many of them were also targeted, but the biggest happened after the war with massive border shifts, new occupied lands, and new enemies to cleanse their soil from. Basically most ethnic Germans from as far east as Stalingrad were forcefully migrated back to Germany or to labor colonies back east, even if they didn't speak a word of German just because of the war I think they estimated about 10% of which died, so that would be like 800,000 to 1.4million. Baltic States suffered the Great Terror, not once but twice, in 1939-41, and post war as well, hundreds of thousands from each country were forcefully migrated east to labor colonies as they were deemed to be too troublesome and against the ideals of the Worker Class.
Honestly don't know about Poland but honestly the Poles had it bad enough under the Germans, that there wasn't much worse the Soviets could do to Poland, but I have heard some people say the Soviet occupation was worse than the Germans, which coming from a Pole, sounds almost unbelievable as lets be frank the Nazis hated the poles and treated them like dirt, so I'm not that keen to agree with that opinion but I'm not an expert on what happened to Poland under Soviet Occupation.
But just from what I've read, it's very likely the USSR ethnically cleansed Eastern Europe of 20-30 million people since the 1920s up to the 1950s, and I'm not talking about murder, though that definitely took place I mean just flat out forced migrations, imprisonment, and Russification.
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@debs-101 Dystopian regimes at their finest.
Hitler's idea of a People's State built on Racial Purity of blood, and ruled by those who prove their usefulness to society by merit. ie he used the idea of "Race" as a glue to bring people in society together.
Marxist ideologies are not much different. Switch out a Race focused People's State, and replace it with a Worker's State, and the Class is used as the glue that holds their "New" Society together, and you fundamentally have something that is different in name/fundamentals but in actual practice/implementation, too similar to ignore.
To sum it up. To create that Racial State, requires removing those from Society who get in the way of creating that Blood Pure Society.
To create a dictatorship of the Proletariat, requires removing all those in society who are enemies of the Proletariat, or are a threat to it's continued existence.
Look up quotes from Lenin about the Kulaks. Basically under Lenin he renamed a specific percent of the Rural Peasant Farming community Kulaks and dubbed them as evil as the bourgeoise, and this persecution of the rural Russian/Belarusian and Ukrainian farmers didn't end with Lenin, as you obviously know. Reason for these persecution primarily stems from agricultural reforms that happened under the Tsarist Russia which a large percent of farmland was actually sold back to the peasants that worked the fields/farms. Because of this, a lot of Rural farmers in Eastern Europe were Landowner. Owning Private Property made you "Evil" in the eyes of all Marxist. Of course when farmers resisted the appropriation of their land/property, Lenin had them ruthlessly crushed.
Lenin in 1918
"Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volosts [regions] must be suppressed without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this because we have now before us our final decisive battle with the kulaks.
We need to set an example. You need to hang – hang without fail, and do it so that the public sees – at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. Publish their names. Take away all of their grain. Execute the hostages – in accordance with yesterday’s telegram.
This needs to be accomplished in such a way that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let’s choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks. Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this.”"
Makes my skin crawl that Lenin considered people who had two too many cows, and refused to give grain over to the red army "Rich Men, and Blood Suckers." When technically his regime stealing from Peasants made his "Red Army" a parasite.
Wasn't just Lenin either.
Josip Broz Tito Communist Leader of Yugoslavia post WWII.
"We will liquidate the kulaks, but not because he is a kulak but because he is a fifth columnist... The present struggle is national liberation in form, but class war in essence."
It's why to be honest, Classism and Racism are two sides of the same coin. Both label specific groups of people in society as evil, and use it to justify persecution, and at times mass murder.
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