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That the USSR was committing crimes against humanity were already known prior to Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. Lend-Lease with the USSR formally began i

That the USSR was committing crimes against humanity were already known prior to Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. Lend-Lease with the USSR formally began in 1941, but knowledge of Stalin's show trials, Gulag, the Holodomor, the partitioning of Poland, and the Winter War all preceded America's entrance into WWII.

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  >Stalin was sent to Siberia by the czar, it was not an innovation of his. When he took power it was the turn of the car's supporters and Whites to go to Siberia The Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps and its work-to-death policies were most certainly an innovation of Stalin's. Frenkel and Yagoda were Stalin's toadies and their recommendations were put into place by Stalin and the Communist Party, not the czar. >Walter Duranty of the New York Times went to the Ukraine at the time and said stories of crop failures there were exaggerated. Only more recently have these old rumors been revived. Walter Duranty was also a toady for Stalin that only wrote in response to Gareth Jones's reporting on the famine. Skepticism of his reporting dates back to the point of publication and has been repeatedly denounced.
- atsaloli 2y ago
  I'm from Ukraine. My great-grandfather died from hunger. Source: my grandfather (who was born in the 1920's).
- aguaviva 2y ago
  Walter Duranty of the New York Times went to the Ukraine at the time and said stories of crop failures there were exaggerated. Which was exposed as denialist propaganda, even in its own time.
- dang 2y ago
  Your account has been using HN primarily (or even exclusively) for political battle. That's not allowed here, and we have to ban accounts that do it, so it would be good if you would stop doing this. It's not compatible with the intended purpose of the site (intellectual curiosity), and in fact destroys it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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>Stalin was sent to Siberia by the czar, it was not an innovation of his. When he took power it was the turn of the car's supporters and Whites to go to Siberia The Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps and its work-to-death policies were most certainly an innovation of Stalin's. Frenkel and Yagoda were Stalin's toadies and their recommendations were put into place by Stalin and the Communist Party, not the czar. >Walter Duranty of the New York Times went to the Ukraine at the time and said stories of crop failures there were exaggerated. Only more recently have these old rumors been revived. Walter Duranty was also a toady for Stalin that only wrote in response to Gareth Jones's reporting on the famine. Skepticism of his reporting dates back to the point of publication and has been repeatedly denounced.
atsaloli 2y ago
I'm from Ukraine. My great-grandfather died from hunger. Source: my grandfather (who was born in the 1920's).
aguaviva 2y ago
Walter Duranty of the New York Times went to the Ukraine at the time and said stories of crop failures there were exaggerated. Which was exposed as denialist propaganda, even in its own time.
dang 2y ago
Your account has been using HN primarily (or even exclusively) for political battle. That's not allowed here, and we have to ban accounts that do it, so it would be good if you would stop doing this. It's not compatible with the intended purpose of the site (intellectual curiosity), and in fact destroys it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html