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For example Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. Especially in Ukraine starting in the early '30ies, but also in eastern Poland from '39 onwards, the NKVD had a quite
by yk 11y ago
For example Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. Especially in Ukraine starting in the early '30ies, but also in eastern Poland from '39 onwards, the NKVD had a quite horrendous human rights record. So the Nazi troops were greeted at liberators when they arrived in '41. At that point the Nazi atrocities had not reached the heights they are infamous for.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoI would imagine their worst human rights record was inside core Russia. They had to destroy all the old world, after all.
- yk 11y agoDepends on your favorite measure for atrocities, there was a civil war in Russia, there were the Stalinist purges all over the Soviet Union, there was the colonization of the Asian part of Russia and there was Holdomor. Each of these are among the worst human rights abuses, but actually I am not sure if you can really argues which one of them was worse.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoThere was a civil war all over the place. The "ukrainian" part is well documented by Bulgakov, for example. Not going to argue.