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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russia has ethnically cleansed like most ethnicities that weren't Russian. It's not exactly a leap to say that they saw a famine happening and made it way worse for an easy ethnic cleansing.

It's true that there is no way to prove what their intentions were, especially since the record keeping of the USSR is basically non-existent, but it seems reasonable that their intent was another ethnic cleansing. From what I have seen from historians the only issue has been that there is no way to prove intent.

[–] randomname01 6 points 2 years ago

I’m not saying it’s a leap - I’m saying that it’s not proven, which would have to be the case for it to be qualified as a genocide.