Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "What do Russians think of Stalin? - BBC News" video.
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Mistiry Soviet Union had labor camps, like in United States, not concentration. In United States were gulags too. And in soviet gulags deathes were caused because of the war, germans occupied fertile land, and there was not enough food for the prisoners. Total died 400 000 men, not 2 million. Prisioners in labor camps had wages, rooms, free food and clothes. This is not concentration camps, this is labor camps, like in America. United States had the same thing.
The famine was caused by the fact that American companies stopped supplying grain to the USSR, on which the USSR then depended, as their agriculture was reduced to attract labor from agriculture to industrialization. The USSR reduced its agriculture to build metallurgy, oil rigs and mechanical engineering, hoping that grain would be sourced from the United States, but a drought swept around the world and American companies stopped supplying grain to the USSR. That's why there was hunger.
In "great purge" were shoten 700 000 people, not 1 700 000. The death penalty was also in America. At least half of those shot deserved their punishment, they were murderers, rapists, marauders. There were no executions for political reasons. In the USSR, there was no article that would condemn a person for anti-government statements. The problem is different, dishonest policemen fabricated cases against innocent people in order to receive bonuses and shoulder straps for being solved. And the state fought against the arbitrariness of the police, mass checks were carried out in the NKVD, and amnesties accounted for 15% of cases
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@nrw64 nazi army killed 7 500 000 soviet civillians, and 5 000 000 died from war activity. Germany was agressor, who attacked Soviet Union. The population of the USSR was 3 times larger than the German one, and therefore Hitler wanted to thin it out strongly, leaving only a couple of million people so that the German nation would not dissolve into the Soviet one. Thanks to the victory in the war, more than 700 million lives have been saved in Eastern Europe, and Germany now does not control all of Europe. For the Russian people, this war was a question of the survival of the entire nation, which the Nazis exterminated in millions. So yes, we are proud of a leadership that, with less manpower and production capacity, managed to build a larger army, and defeat the assassins with adequate casualties of 1.5 to 1, liberating half of Europe.
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@nrw64 famine in the USSR was caused by the fact that the United States stopped selling grain due to drought. The Soviet government did not suit him on purpose. Labor camps were in America, and during the First World War, Russian emigrants were imprisoned in American camps. In Soviet camps (gulags), for 30 years, less than a million people were kept with a population of 160, in America, over the same 30 years - 700,000, with a population of 140. That is, there were as many people in American gulags as in Soviet ones. And there were almost no innocent convicts there, there were massive police checks and amnesty. The state did not control the executions. Stalin did not kill anyone, executions were not his doing, those who were in the gulags deserved their punishment
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