Opinion by David Von Drehle: Xi and Putin put a sick twist on “peace” and “security”
Meanwhile, he wants Russia to be secure in its century-long effort to annihilate Ukrainian identity — no matter how many millions of Ukrainians must die.to erase a nation and its people. Like much of modern Europe, Ukraine took shape as the old empires shattered after World War I. The Red Army of the Bolsheviks, victorious in the Russian Revolution, countered by imposing Soviet rule.
,” classified as enemies and either executed or shipped off to the growing network of Soviet labor camps.. Yet Stalin seemed to think that farming should be as simple as issuing a directive from the Kremlin for so many tons of wheat and corn. When the mismanaged and demoralized collectives failed to deliver the assigned tonnage, the dictator perceived the shortfall to be proof of Ukrainian disloyalty.
Stalin decided to starve the independence out of Ukraine — much as Putin’s army appears to have decided to starve the. Soviet troops swept in, seizing the crops and livestock of small subsistence farmers to make up the supposed shortfalls from the collectives. When the hungry farmers tried to flee, the Russians imposed a system of internal passports, essentially sealing off Ukraine from the outside world as its people wasted away.Families slaughtered their house pets for protein.
The trauma of this genocidal famine was so great that many survivors actually welcomed the armies of Adolf Hitler when they
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