It could have been done without wiping out the people, language, and culture. Ukranians were targeted because they were a large minority and had valuable land.
Every year since 1929 has seen the publication of more books in the Ukrainian language than were published in the whole 118 years before the Revolution.
What a novel way to attempt to wipe out a language, publishing books in it.
The USSR started out with a policy of indigenization. This allowed the Soviet Union to establish control over outlying and rebellious regions after the Civil War. However, according to the Soviets, this policy also gave the outlying regions the ability to organize against yhe state. This policy would unofficially end in 1932 and officially swapped for Russification in 1938.
If the USSR was trying to kill their culture, they weren’t very good at it, because Ukrainians are still speaking Ukrainian to this day.
Taking this argument in isolation, it’s the same argument used today to say Israel isn’t conducting a genocide. “If Israel wanted to genocide Palestinians, they aren’t very good at it, cause only 70K killed.”
Taken in isolation, THIS argument could be used to cast the Allied invasion of Italy in WW2 as a project of genocide. They did kill a number of Italians, after all.
It matters what Israel does. Here is a state actually doing something you baselessly claim the USSR did, and surprise surprise, they’re acting completely opposite to how the USSR acted.
If the USSR was trying to kill their culture, they weren’t very good at it, because Ukrainians are still speaking Ukrainian to this day.
No shit. That’s the point of socialism: to expropriate bourgeois private property and redistribute it to the masses.
It could have been done without wiping out the people, language, and culture. Ukranians were targeted because they were a large minority and had valuable land.
What a novel way to attempt to wipe out a language, publishing books in it.
Heh, novel way
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It wasn’t successful. The Soviets relented, and the famine lifted.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2496868
The USSR started out with a policy of indigenization. This allowed the Soviet Union to establish control over outlying and rebellious regions after the Civil War. However, according to the Soviets, this policy also gave the outlying regions the ability to organize against yhe state. This policy would unofficially end in 1932 and officially swapped for Russification in 1938.
https://www.history.com/articles/ukrainian-famine-stalin
Suprise suprise, it ended the same year millions of Ukranians would die in a man-made famine.
Taking this argument in isolation, it’s the same argument used today to say Israel isn’t conducting a genocide. “If Israel wanted to genocide Palestinians, they aren’t very good at it, cause only 70K killed.”
Taken in isolation, THIS argument could be used to cast the Allied invasion of Italy in WW2 as a project of genocide. They did kill a number of Italians, after all.
Does Israel recognize the state of Palestine?
But did the allies attempt to destroy Italian culture, language, and identity, along with systematically killing Italian civilians?
Does it matter what Israel thinks?
They did not, just like the Soviets didn’t.
It matters what Israel does. Here is a state actually doing something you baselessly claim the USSR did, and surprise surprise, they’re acting completely opposite to how the USSR acted.