The Soviet union’s anti racist policies made themselves evident for droves of black peoples who traveled there from abroad

When you take into account the Russians didn't have problem conscripting Jews into their army then you can bet a few of them specifically were fighting with the thought of the camps (or what they knew of the camps at that point anyways which was not a lot)

Delusional

It’s a stated goal of socialists and communists to kill the rich

An account from the 1920’s

Nazi propaganda is so hateful it's pretty much unbearable to watch whereas Commie propaganda usually just fetishizes cows and farming and stuff to a hilarious degree (and could be quite beautiful) it's a more benign type of evil

Then again Stalin himself seemed just as cold as Hitler with the way he would casually order the deaths of ten of thousands then millions of his own people. Like at least Hitler legitimately loved at least one contingency of his own people. Nobody was safe from Stalin's wrath of when he started getting paranoid.

I mean even Albert Einstein had support for the great purges

Scientists are not known for their empathy

What does this have to do with anti semitism

It has to do with anti-racist policy

Anti semitism isn’t garden variety racism. These people think Jews run the world and drink baby blood

I don’t think a lack of empathy is something criticize Stalin for in regards to the great purges

The Soviet Union made massive strides in social development and quality of life in its infant years even through the the holodomor. I’d say it was pragmatically reasonable for people like Stalin to have protected the project from those who wanted a monarchy in place again

Nearly done this 22-hour documentary from 1973 called The World At War you guys should watch for the sheer amount of interviews with people from all sides and all walks of life Russian peasants to Nazi commanders giving their perspectives only a couple decades later, very fascinating.

There isn’t any form of racism that is especially distinct from another

Where can I watch

“Garden variety racism” is a disgusting term to use

One, yes there is. Two, comparing anti-black racism in Russia to anti-semitism is stupid, since way more Jews than Black people have lived there

Disgusting not to acknowledge the special brand of bigotry jews are subjected to

Idk we pirate in Canada

They all form from the same root causes and attack the material conditions that are unique to each “race.”

Antisemitic bigotry is no more or less disgusting than all other forms of racism (they are all as disgusting as can be)

Real as f***

Yes but the whole holodmor mainly happened because Stalin was pushing such an unrealistic schedule for the 5-year plan that he was going two steps backwards for every step forward and ended up turning everybody against him and Russia. A lot of Eastern Europe hated Stalin so much that they actually gladly welcome to the Nazi invaders when they first pushed East too bad the Nazis were too stupid to utilize the potential force they had there and just considered them subhuman slavs for the Holocaust

The purges a little understandable but the holodmor was so brutal. And things like sending half of his returning soldiers to the gulags after World War II cause he didn't trust them after they got exposed to Western culture. Ice cold.

Ya I mean it's a push in that direction but I think most cases are more complex than Government says x bad so society stops believing x

I don't even disagree with your point but you and others always post this story like A there's any reason to believe it B a single incident in Moscow represents the whole of the SU