Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "MentisWave"
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One interesting point is that if you look at a map the famine corresponds most heavily to cossack populated areas, notably leaving the borders of Ukraine to do so, and heavily effecting the lower Caucasus, in which the kuban Cossacks were based. The Soviets had a very long conflict with them, having wanted to wipe them out in the civil war but being unable to due to the military effectiveness of Cossack social organisation (they could very quickly mobilise large forces which the Soviets had trouble countering, as cavalry remained highly effective), from then on there was an attempt to make Cossacks Ukrainian at the same time as there was one to make the Ukrainians Russian (Cossacks spoke localised dialects often derived from Ukrainian but also cut-off, just like their society), they also wiped out much of the leadership class. If the intention had been to combat Ukrainian nationalists their stronghold was western Ukraine, and though secrecy was likely a large part in not focusing as heavily in those regions targeting the Cossacks was likely a good deal of the motivation as they had proven a considerable danger to the Soviets, while Ukrainian nationalists were openly mocked throughout the history of the Soviet union, notably within the leadership. The rhetoric is also different, if you look into it the intentions towards the Cossacks was open and extremely long lived, while Ukrainian nationalists were mocked for their dress and language the attitude towards the Cossacks was genocidal. That of course doesn't mean that Stalin didn't also take it as an opportunity to wipe out Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine and replace them with Russians, or indeed that he cared about collateral damage much at all.
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As an autodidiact and someone who has since gone to university I will say that the existing databases within academia are superior to just finding stuff on the internet, but there is an ungodly amount of noise, Google scholar is almost unusable (90%+ of what you get is utter drivel, the remaining 10% is probably unrelated to the topic), but university library search engines are usually a lot better.
The fact is that the internet as a lot more on some subjects than others, and the search engine is often saturated with normie content. For example I was trying to find out about the traditional furnishings of a yurt yesterday, I finally found a manufacturer who gives good details of yurts at all and makes ones which aren't just tents with a wooden skeleton (actual yurts use felt lining, as insulation is preferable for something you are living in and moisture needs to get out so you don't just make a fungus farm), but again the furnishings are western. I found some footage of Mongol stuff but I was looking for Turkic, and some of Turkic but it was not traditional. The search goes on, in an academic database I would quickly be lead to some autist Victorian who had already done the work for me and ten papers on how yurt living is sexist because it allows for affordable housing and thus the possibility of a single income family, and is classist because middle class plonkers like holidaying in canvas tents made up to look like them.
Likewise with a lot of this stuff, the way to find out obscure things on the internet is fairly unorthodox. My original source for the traditional interiors is a manga called a bride's tale, I know the author is very well informed about central Asian material culture, but good luck finding much about it in English. But then occasionally you'll get the opposite, for instance information on the circassians has been put online by an obscure website, and dissident literature reaches an increasingly wide audience.
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