Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Russian invasion of Ukraine [3 Jun 2022]" video.

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  15.  @Inhetmidden  Actually I know both Russian, Ukrainian and Polish history very, very well. I would say better then most US history professors. Stalin punished Crimean Tatars, or what was still left of them, after WWII, for collaboration with the Nazi (which was true) by sending them to Siberia / far east. Many did not come back. I am not sure about what Stalin did to Ukrainians - but you are probably falsely claiming Holdomir. For your information, in Soviet Union, there was no notion of "racism" as "racism" was a NAZI thing, and Soviets were 180 degrees apart from Nazi. So if you happen to be Black and Soviet, you were good. If you were any color of the skin, nationality, etc. and happen not to be Soviet, then you went to Siberia to be "re-educated". This the great famine was not directed against any particular "soviet" people and certainly not against Ukrainians that only in early 1930s in Poland were identified as something "non Russian". It was simply Soviet style mis management of resources. Since Ukraine today and in the past was heavily agricultural, it was heavily affected. For you continued consideration, may I add that during that time, there was no hunger in Poland at all. Yet Ukrainian nationalist, later Nazi leader, Stephan Bandera still went ahead and killed as an assassin Polish minister. Thus as you see, you are totally incorrect in your assumptions. Totally. Not even close. You do not realize, that if you made a joke about Stalin, it did not matter you were Ukrainian (if such thing was even seen to exist) or Russian (which everyone was) - you simply said hello to minimum of 5 years. Please do not compare Bandera to Putin. This is very offensive. I am Polish. This is like comparing Hitler to Putin for the Jews and saying both killed & are the same.
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  16. ​ @Inhetmidden  LOL, no. Need to read more history. Crimea is the traditional seat of despicable people known as Tatars of the Golden Horde. These pp main source of income was banditry - sort of similar to kossacks, but their target was both Polish Lithuania as well as Russia. Their source of income outside of some good was slaves. I.e. they captured slaves. One of these slaves was a woman from present day Ukraine that managed to go up so high in the rankings she ruled Ottoman empire (Turkey) for few years. Anyways, the evil horde was finally defeated and driven out by Cathrine the great after in multiple wars she defeated Ottomans - I am sure you can see connection between the horde and Ottomans. This is why I said in my comment "these that were left" - not many were left as Cathrine make sure she though these little bastards how to swim (back to Ottomans). Cathrine btw was German. This is why Tatars had "slight" dislike for the Russians. You are totally over playing Holdomir - its nothing more then similar artifical hunger created by communism in China in great leap forward. Except in China it killed like 10x as many pp. No one is saying that Chinese great leap forward "targetted anyone" - why is that? The hunger in Russia was identical, from identical mistakes, and it was not aimed at anyone. Thus saying it was somehow anti X is totally false. As to the killing - it was not done with a rifle - but with simple hunger. Also "higher classes in Moscow and Leningrad" is a joke, its a communism, everyone is equal. There was no real "higher" class - in fact the only class you can ever talk about is peasants and workers as being preferred. Sort of mini affirmative action. For example, when my dad went to university he marked that he had "peasant" upbringing so his chances to get in were better. Thus if anything, it was FAR better to be a peasant / worker then say an engineer, especially with aristocratic background. Also being poor was good. This went so far that if you had (if I remember correctly) more then 2 horses in your farm you would say hello to Siberia for being rich. Or when Polish soldiers were captured during WWII by Soviets, one of the officers avoided Katyn b/c he was actively fixing the engine in the truck (an engineer). Soviets seen his dirty hands assumed he was worker. You do not know even 1% of what did happen, why it did happen etc. It feels a lot of info you have is from propaganda sources, especially with constant play up of Holdomir. As for locking pp up, you may take a look at Ukrainian laws which make what Putin did in Russia feel like Putin is a little mini dictator ;)
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