Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Poor, poor little Stalin. Always getting fucked by the West. He should have stuck to murdering his own people, not anyone else. There's a reason why the Russians don't revere him like other Russian leaders. No doubt some would want to turn his grave into a public toilet.
As for Lend-Lease to the Soviets; yes it was a good move by FDR.
https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/
Stalin had nearly a million of his own citizens executed, beginning in the 1930s. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin’s henchmen.
“In some cases, a quota was established for the number to be executed, the number to be arrested,” said Naimark. “Some officials overfulfilled as a way of showing their exuberance.”
https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin
Ultimately, although Stalin’s policies resulted in the deaths of millions, it failed to crush Ukrainian aspirations for autonomy, and in the long run, they may actually have backfired. “Famine often achieves a socio-economic or military purpose, such as transferring land possession or clearing an area of population, since most flee rather than die,” famine historian de Waal says. “But politically and ideologically it is more often counterproductive for its perpetrators. As in the case of Ukraine it generated so much hatred and resentment that it solidified Ukrainian nationalism.”
Eventually, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine finally became an independent nation—and the Holodomor remains a painful part of Ukrainians’ common identity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Death_toll_and_allegations_of_genocide
Official records reveal 799,455 documented executions in the Soviet Union between 1921 and 1953; 681,692 of these were carried out between 1937 and 1938, the years of the Great Purge.[892] However, according to Michael Ellman, the best modern estimate for the number of repression deaths during the Great Purge is 950,000–1.2 million, which includes executions, deaths in detention, or soon after their release.[893] In addition, while archival data shows that 1,053,829 perished in the Gulag from 1934 to 1953,[894] the current historical consensus is that of the 18 million people who passed through the Gulag system from 1930 to 1953, between 1.5 and 1.7 million died as a result of their incarceration.[895] The historian and archival researcher Stephen G. Wheatcroft and Michael Ellman attribute roughly 3 million deaths to the Stalinist regime, including executions and deaths from criminal negligence.[896][897] Wheatcoft and historian R. W. Davies estimate famine deaths at 5.5–6.5 million[898] while scholar Steven Rosefielde gives a number of 8.7 million.[899] The American historian Timothy D. Snyder in 2011 summarised modern data, made after the opening of the Soviet archives in the 1990s, and concludes that Stalin's regime was responsible for 9 million deaths, with 6 million of these being deliberate killings. He notes that the estimate is far lower than the estimates of 20 million or above which were made before access to the archives.[900]
Historians continue to debate whether or not the 1932–33 Ukrainian famine—known in Ukraine as the Holodomor—should be called a genocide.[901] Twenty six countries officially recognise it under the legal definition of genocide.
