• Lucky@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m wondering if you just posted the link without reading any results and are just doubling down to sound correct.

    One of the first articles is AP news reporting UN backed human rights groups calling it genocide

    https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-human-rights-663b3a4ba24499d93f3f889e98f8b652

    And an article by Time reporting the kidnapping of children being investigated as genocide, and that there is already enough evidence for the allegations

    https://time.com/6262903/russia-ukraine-genocide-war-crimes/

        • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          The links provided literally claim war crimes, they do not claim genocide.

          Also Stalin did some terrible things but comparing him to Putin is ridiculous.

          https://discomfiting.medium.com/holodomor-fact-or-fiction-17324ffe1d46

          ‚In addition, and despite some people (i.e., Norman Naimark) saying “The Soviet Union made no efforts to provide relief”, reports show that the Central Soviet Authorities sent hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food aid to Ukraine. In early February of 1933, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk regions each received 3,300 tonnes of food aid. By the end of February, the Dnipropetrovsk region received 20,000 tonnes of food aid, Odessa received around 13,000 tonnes, and Kharkiv received almost 5,000 tonnes. Reports document that from February to June in the year of 1933, over 500,000 tonnes of food aid was sent to Ukraine. According to archived documents, Joseph Stalin himself, along with Molotov, personally took it upon themselves to scold Joseph Vareikis, First Secretary of the Voronezh Regional Committee of the CPSU, on March 31st of 1933 for his objection to sending 26,000 pounds of potatoes to the Donbass region of Ukraine. These behaviors including, but not limited to, sending food aid and at that personally intervening to ensure food aid is being given, is fairly odd or strange behavior for, as the “holodomor-genocide” campaigners would say, a “genocidal maniac who wanted to kill Ukrainians”. Truly, there was no reason for Stalin to go as far as personally intervening in that situation as he did to ensure food aid was sent to Ukraine if he was genuinely trying to create a famine to crush Ukraine.‘

          You can also find archived docs of that time where the exact numbers and policies are described; it’s in Cyrillic though.