u/Ruanda1990 - originally from r/GenZhou
Hi, me again
I was looking into a thread about Israeli and US sottraction of the land of native population in the areas but one user pointed out Soviet era deportation of peoples, posting this article of Wikipedia and this other article
According to Wikipedia, soviet population transfers were “the forced transfer of various groups from the 1930s up to the 1950s ordered by Joseph Stalin”. According to Wikipedia the “targets” were Kulaks, ethnic minorities and occupied territory citizens and were a form of “ethnic cleaning” and “genocide”, which caused the death of approximately 800,000 to 1,500,000 people. The article starts mentioning the forced deportation of Kulaks (Dekulakization) and the deportation of soviet Koreans in 1937.
The article goes on talking about the deportation of the crimean Tatars, the deportation of Circassians, the deportations of Chechens and Ingush people, the deportation of Germans and Poles after WW2 and finally the deportation of Estonians and other baltic peoples after. Many of those supposed genocides are recognized by the EU and other post soviet states like Ukraine. On 26 April 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, under its chairman Boris Yeltsin, passed the law On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples with Article 2 denouncing all mass deportations as “Stalin’s policy of defamation and genocide.”
What do you think of these articles? Do you recommend any good books on the subject from an ML perspective? Do you have anything to add to these claims? Thank you in advance and have a good day.
u/dornish1919 - originally from r/GenZhouI know that Tatars and Chechens at one point were supportive of Nazi Germany and even had swastikas on their nationalist flags during an era when 20 million Soviet citizens were brutally murdered. The USSR thought it best to keep a closer eye on them by relocating them inward, and to prevent events like genocide from happening as most of their soldiers were men, they required their families travel with them. Of course the western narrative tries to twist this into something else completely while ignoring its own history of concentration camps and genocide. Funny that.