There's so much wrong with the Stepens column, but this is worth flagging. Stalin's committed many crimes in Poland (most notoriously the Katyn massacre). But to say Stalin's invasion was "no less murderous" than Hitler's is to engage in a very dangerous form of mythmaking. https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1167599186201710594 …
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And to kill the majority of Poles!
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That’s myth making right there. Stalin’s agenda was far beyond territorial aggrandizement. At the very least it was expansion of the Communist Revolution...and realistically for Stalin, just as engaged with eliminating undesirables as Hitler was.
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This was played out, not only in term of people exported from Poland under Stalin, but time and time again throughout the entire Russian campaign. And escalated after the retaking of territory. Hell, both sides were actively massacring “undesirables” in The Ukraine throughout
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The invasion wasn’t itself genocide. This is just your excuse making for your ideological allies. Stalin has a friend in you!
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Was the basis of Stalin's genocides on race?
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Tell that to the Ukrainians.
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There are so many terrible takes in the replies here (re expansion of communist revolution, which is in fact the literal opposite of Stalin’s foreign policy). But it does raise an interesting counter factual: would Trotsky have had a bigger body count than Stalin?
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Stalin did a lot of old school imperial ethnic collective punishment which was very bad but Trotsky’s permanent revolution, while potentially less racist, seems like a recipe for brutal forever war. And he did a -lot- of war crimes in the civil war
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killing people on the basis of a social class or education is less terrible than genocide?
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i think it would be more accurate to say stalin's agenda was aggrandizement of the bolshevik state; to the extent that he conquered other countries it was to buffer the USSR from external threats and the overwhelming majority of his victims were internal opposition
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