• SpaceDogs
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    Why would Chrystia Freeland approve of her grandpa’s name being struck?

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    If that monument has to exist, let them keep the Nazi names on the ‘victim’ list.

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      You would think that anticommunists would feel at least mildly uncomfortable honouring antisemitic war criminals next to (hypothetical) babies, but I guess that they have more important things to worry about. Besides, one hundred million is an epic‐sounding number. There’s no way that they’re going to adjust it by subtracting casualties that were all carelessly piled together, let alone by reducing totals that were fuckheadedly inflated.

      Vinberg’s colleagues Scheubner‐Richter and Rosenberg in particular stressed that the “Jewish Bolshevik” dictatorship had killed millions of Russians through war, disease, starvation, and execution. In an October 1922 edition of Aufbau Correspondence, Scheubner‐Richter estimated the costs of the “Bolshevik experiment” to the Russian people at approximately two million refugees and 35 million dead.⁶¹

      In an August 1921 Völkisch Observer article, “The Pogrom Against the German and the Russian Peoples,” Rosenberg claimed of Russia: “A characteristic Jewish rule of terror was set up as world history had not yet seen […] Over 30 million people have sunk away through murder, starvation, and cholera.”⁶² He revised his figures upwards in his 1923 Protocols work. He asserted, “Over 40 million Russians perished through the Jewish terror.”⁶³ Hitler used the figure of 40 million Russian victims of starvation that the Jews had caused as early as an August 1921 speech.⁶⁴

      (Source.)