What Stalin did to sleep at night is his own problem. Absent invading hordes, the people inside your borders are always "your people", whether we're talking Armenians in Turkey, Slavs in Russia, or anything else. Othering scapegoats has a long and cherished world history, but that doesn't cut any ice in reality.
Communist purges are as much a bi-product of excess energy as capitalism was. With industrial machines replacing humans, for the first time since the Agricultural Revolution, surplus people were not necessary for victory ( in as far as the area with the most farmers and the most soldiers usually won over rivals )
"Who's up for going full-speed ahead to kill another 600,000 of your friends and neighbors?"
This is a false question as your numbers are not a certainty in any way shape or form. Sure, you pulled them from real world observation and then ran with it. The problem is that you are necessarily lacking in enough information for your numbers to form a solid enough conclusion to propose the question except as a hypothetical.
Not counting the news outlets or websites along the full range of accuracy and veracity, I follow multiple actual individuals' handwritten blogs. (Bot news aggregators don't thrill me.) Looking them over, many are current serving or former military and a couple are some variation of high-speed low-drag elite forces ninjas. Or just funny as all. Because life without humor is just despair. So in other words, the same folks I trusted in the military not to wet the bed, sh*t themselves, or otherwise run around like headless Nancys, are the same folks I trust on the interwebz, for demonstrating pretty much the same trustworthiness and circumspectly responsible behavior. Color me shocked.
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Really? Georgian Stalin considered Slavs to be his "own people?"
What Stalin did to sleep at night is his own problem.
Absent invading hordes, the people inside your borders are always "your people", whether we're talking Armenians in Turkey, Slavs in Russia, or anything else. Othering scapegoats has a long and cherished world history, but that doesn't cut any ice in reality.
Communist purges are as much a bi-product of excess energy as capitalism was. With industrial machines replacing humans, for the first time since the Agricultural Revolution, surplus people were not necessary for victory ( in as far as the area with the most farmers and the most soldiers usually won over rivals )
"Who's up for going full-speed ahead to kill another 600,000 of your friends and neighbors?"
This is a false question as your numbers are not a certainty in any way shape or form. Sure, you pulled them from real world observation and then ran with it. The problem is that you are necessarily lacking in enough information for your numbers to form a solid enough conclusion to propose the question except as a hypothetical.
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