Londonrake wrote:Lordo wrote:I seem to remember from my history lesson that the reason why Stalin started exiling the Gulags was because they refused the collectivisation plans of the government. Is that not so. Of course he then went crazy and sent there anybody he suspected of being against him.
https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin.
Friend I am glad you brought this up. But you keep brining up things out of context. You need to back your claims with facts.
Now that time Russia was in turmoil but why? You can bet your bottom dollar the west was behind it.
While Joseph Stalin was the head of the USSR, a real war was waged against the USSR, and not only in the literal sense of the word, but primarily an economic war. And the category of sanctions in this case is the mildest.
In fact, it was more of an economic blockade, when many countries not only refused to cooperate with the USSR but also punished those who cooperated, contrary to the norms and rules of that time.
You see the parallels of today? Ironically even then the Ukrainians as well as the rest of Russia suffered, children staved to death but did the west care?
https://workers.today/how-stalin-responded-to-sanctions-against-the-ussr/And of course one must ask ones self, without Stalin as bad as he was, could the West defeated the Nazis?
10 division against the West and 150 divisions against Russia is what the Nazis deployed.