Rod_Blagojevic

This is what happens when you either deny the existence of class or think class is an aesthetic.

Also, if I was hanging someone, I would probably take off their hard hat.

Most Westerners don't realize they can go to China themselves, also the reason none of the countless Chinese people that live in the west talk about the trauma from experiencing these atrocities is because they never happened.

Ok nerd, you're right. Those Russians were (allegedly) no angels. I guess they just need to accept the ethnic cleansing.

The lib russophobia here is off the charts.

I hate having the horizons of human knowledge and exploration dictated by the whims of a rich moron. I should be used to it, and I am, but I still don't like it.

Ok, so the violent religious reactionaries needed to be dealt with, but with a more nuanced approach. What should it be? What would be faster and gentler, but also effective?

What do you propose as the proper way for China to deal with violent religious reactionaries? Maybe they should've focused more energy on a decades long occupation of Afghanistan that accomplished literally nothing except a vast amount of grifting.

China has created genocide invisibility technology that obscures all evidence of the definitely real genocide in Xinjiang.

Literally trying to kick them in the nuts works. You might get your ass beat, but they'll also see you as too much trouble to mess with later. It's not fun, but in my experience you have to literally fight them. It doesn't matter if you win or lose.

~20 years ago you could still find lots of democrats primarily committed to raising the minimum wage and making it easier to organize unions. Democrats should try that again. They definitely won't.

All this and you somehow missed that the whole point of dekulakization was to fight and eliminate a class of landowners that were ruling Ukraine through antisemitic violence. Were they really that bad? Yes. As soon as they had the opportunity they gleefully waged much of the holocaust. Most Ukrainians fought against them. It wasn't a genocide. It was to stop a genocide. You, yourself, can go read the Yitzkhor books. People wrote extensively about their experiences of life and resistance against the kulaks.

Let's be charitable and assume you're not antisemitic. Instead I'll assume your committing the classic liberal error where you give separate judgment to the means and the end. In this case, you don't like the antisemites, but your uncomfortable with the idea of actually doing what it takes to defeat them. Where does that leave us? How many Jews needed to die while waiting for the kulaks to politely stop using ethnic violence as a tool to enrich themselves?

You probably don't apply the same impossible standards to indigenous and slave resistance in the US. That's because you never worked through the russophobia that liberals are encouraged to apply to all of the former Soviet peoples. There's no rational reason to judge their resistance to the rich any differently.

Stalin led a mass movement that destroyed the rule of the Ukrainian kulaks that had maintained their power and wealth through antisemitic violence, and then did the same thing to the nazis and their collaborators. He's an all time great when it comes to killing rightwingers. Only god knows how many jews, romani, and slavs he saved. Of course, liberals hate him. Maybe Stalin should have whined, written terse letters, and been a good rule follower while millions were murdered in order to enrich a few assholes.

Work on your antisemitism, nerd.