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?
There was an absolutely monstrous famine in the USSR in 1920’s. It demolished Povolzhye and AFAIK did affect Ukraine. Of course there are people who blame it on Bolsheviks and “war communism” policy.
Absolutely nothing to do with 7 years of continous brutal war. As Lenin put it, even the rich and victorious countries like France had famine after that war, and France had only a small fraction of territory destroyed in the course of war, so how they would think half feudal country would look after double warfare time also waged on their most productive territories?
Don’t forget severe weather problems and other countries refusing to sell grain for gold
But it began in 1921, correct? Which was a full year before Stalin became general secretary.
Like that would stop anti-communists