@Deleted User I can't personally accept that it's a different language altogether but I can understand where you're coming from. You make a fair point.

Joseph "No Rain in The Ukraine" Stalin

@mcstubbs lel

@Deleted User Hmm, if I remember correctly.... didn't the population not decrease due to russia's population size? Though I agree the claim that 80M died because of stalin is questionable, there is no doubt that millions died under stalin.

i'm unsure of the exact numbers because the most i know about the purges and all of that are mainly that of the officer corps of the red army, and that wasn't significant in proportion the the USSR's population

there's a historian that i keep up with who says the most he'd credit him with is 20m, but he's also a trotskyist and a military historian, and he's said himself that he doesn't know the exact number

Now the holodomor was most likely not done intentionally, but because of the famine, and the soviet unions already big shortage on food and it's distrabution, it ended up leaving the kulaks high and dry, which meant that they had to feed themselves during the famine, which led to millions dying.

probably less than 20m, probably more than 3

@mcstubbs No way it was just 3 M.

yeah, definitely more

@mcstubbs At least in the tens od millions.

@Deleted User According to the 1937 census, there were around 162 million people accounted for. This was prior to the devastating losses as a result of WW2 AKA "The Great Patriotic War". And the population increase was primarily due to a radical change in living standards as a result of the Bolsheviks seizing power and implementing numerous social and economic reforms.

i think 15-20 is a good ballpark

@Deleted User Well that explains it then.

and after famines

it was about 30m soviets that died in the war, no?

mostly civilians.

so that's still 30m unaccounted for, but there were food shortages immediately after the war as well iirc

@mcstubbs I am unsure, WW2 info especially from the soviet union is hardly trustworthy at all, because the soviets were infamous for lying, and forging documents.

oh yeah.

the germans were too, which makes the eastern front a CLUSTERFUCK

If I remember correctly, the soviet union also claimed that there was zero starvation......in the 1930's.

yeah.

and this is coming from somebody who likes studying the eastern front a lot.

@mcstubbs Germans? Ehh, not really.

i know that a lot of SS units greatly exaggerated kill counts

@mcstubbs Like on the russian front?

and a lot of immediate postwar memoirs available in the us were written by german generals acquitted of warcrimes

yep.

@mcstubbs 20 mil was an official statistic formulated after the war, but a number of scholars have actually claimed that number isn't correct as it didn't accurately identify all those that actually died nor did it account for the missing POW's/MIA service members. Some say it may have been as many as 40 mil.

and the us bought into it because heck, we thought we were gonna be fightin' the commies next and we needed to know how they worked

yeah, i believe it. soviet documents are a clusterfuck

@mcstubbs Ehh, sounds more like banter and big talk, it is hard to say for certain, but it certainly dosen't match up with fucking removing people from history, forging historical documents, and outright lying.

@mcstubbs And, what do you mean about the german post war memoirs?

oh yeah, i just meant from a standpoint of analyzing casualty counts and the like

well, a lot of western understanding of the eastern front comes from these memoirs, which tend to paint wehrmacht actions in a very positive light compared to the soviets.

also

fun game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bagration

check out the casualty counts in this article. none of the historians can agree.