Extraction
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When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about pain. Were you entitled to it? Was it real?

Tali Perch, writing in Guernica Magazina, chronicles the horrors of Stalin’s repression, banditry, and genocide. She readily conflates him with Hitler. Notably, Stalin’s goons break into poor shtetl homes looking for gold and cash. It was an interesting read about generational trauma. Even so, I have a hard time believing some of the claims put forward. Does someone more knowledgeable than me want to clarify its contents?

  • Soviet Snake
    16•1 year ago

    I’m sure if you search for Holodomor in Lemmygrad you will find some great and excellent post/comments that will go way more in depth than me, but as a brief version: It’s Western propaganda. Basically during the Holodomor some landlords and bourgeois who owned grain in Ukraine preferred to dispense of the grain instead of giving it to the USSR because they would not get any profit from it, which was going to be used to distribute it among the many countries that composed it. This caused a famine and it is Stalin’s fault somehow during a time when the USSR was already facing a harsh time in many senses.