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  • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine's drone support makes it a legitimate war target
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    15 days ago

    The major contributor to the famine was environmental, as it was every other time that region experienced famine. My criticism is that the Holodomor presentation is disingenuous. It wasn’t a man-made famine from scratch and it clearly wasn’t targeted. Kulaks destroyed food that was being collectivized for redistribution. That absolutely would have helped feed people. They burned it because they couldn’t profit from it in the crisis. If they couldn’t have it, no one should. That’s not noble resistance, that’s sabotage that hurt the very people they claimed to represent. This is an ahistorical framing.

    On the Nazi invasion: Stalin being “speechless” is revisionist folklore. Hitler’s intent to invade Russia was literal doctrine in Mein Kampf. Everyone knew it was coming. When France, Britain, and Poland refused every pact the Soviets put forward to stop the Nazis, to defend Czechoslovakia, to form a collective security front, it was extremely obvious what was next. The USSR wasn’t naive. They were preparing for a war they knew was inevitable because the West wouldn’t ally with them to prevent it.

    You say the USSR didn’t expect to face Germany alone. That ignores the diplomatic record. Stalin proposed collective security repeatedly. He was rebuffed. Poland refused Soviet passage to confront Hitler. The buffer zone gained in 1939 did delay the Nazi advance. Whether that was the primary intent or a side effect, it happened. That’s strategic reality, not apologism.

    On the famine again: if Moscow deliberately seized quotas to genocide Ukrainians or Kazakhs, why did the same policies apply to Russian peasants in the Volga, Kuban, and North Caucasus? Why did party officials in those same regions starve? Procurement quotas were brutal and badly implemented, yes. But they weren’t ethnically calibrated. The suffering was cross-ethnic because the crisis was structural and environmental, not a targeted hit job.

    I’m not debating the deportations. They were bad. Full stop. But you’re twisting history to pad the list. Conflating distinct events, ignoring environmental factors, and erasing the agency of kulak sabotage doesn’t strengthen your critique. It makes it easier to dismiss. Call out the crimes, but don’t reshape the record to do it. Accuracy matters.

  • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine's drone support makes it a legitimate war target
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    15 days ago

    I think you’re drawing lines history doesn’t support. The famine hit Ukraine yes but also Kazakhstan the North Caucasus Kuban the Volga region the southern Urals and western Siberia. Same drought same collectivization pressures same policy failures across all these regions. And it was worsened in large part due to kulaks land-owning peasants who burned grain and slaughtered livestock to sabotage collectivization. This resistance happened everywhere the policy rolled out. Also even scholars critical of the USSR don’t claim the famine was manufactured from scratch. The actual debate is whether policy errors worsened a crisis with environmental roots not whether Moscow designed starvation as a targeted ethnic weapon. If that was the goal why did those same populations grow industrialize and thrive in the decades after? And after 1933 that entire region never suffered a major famine again. Not during the war not after. The agricultural system was stabilized.

    On Poland your framing ignores the diplomatic reality. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the last non-aggression deal the Nazis signed. France and Britain had already appeased Hitler at Munich and refused Stalin’s proposals for a collective security pact to defend Czechoslovakia. Poland itself refused to let the Red Army pass through its territory to confront the Nazis. So when the Polish state collapsed under German invasion in September 1939 the Soviets moved into Ukrainian and Belarusian lands Poland had taken in 1921. Yes the pact may have had secret protocols. But that buffer zone delayed the Nazi advance and kept those populations out of German hands for nearly two years that’s still positive. The USSR bought critical time to industrialize because it knew it would face the Nazi war machine largely alone. That’s important context (they were right 80% of the fight was on the Eastern front).

    I’m not defending Soviet deportations or repressions. They happened they were brutal and they warrant criticism. But if we’re going to critique history we need accuracy not selective framing. Conflating distinct events or narrowing complex disasters to fit an ethnic narrative doesn’t strengthen your argument it weakens it. Call out the crimes sure but don’t reshape the record to do it or pad your list.

  • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•China-North Korea International Passenger Trains to Open in Two Directions on March 12
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    20 days ago

    After the arrival of the train to Beijing, the train to Beijing, the train to Beijing, after the train to Beijing, the train to Beijing, 25 times to Beijing, the train to Beijing, after the arrival of the train to Beijing, the train to Beijing, the train to Beijing, the train to Beijing, after the arrival of the train. Dandong and Pyongyang international passenger train between the two-way, Dandong to Pyongyang, 95 Beijing time at 10:00 Beijing time from Dandong station, arrived in the North Korea Xinyizhou station, the train was changed to 52 train, arrived at 18:07 local time to Pyongyang station; Pyongyang to Dandong, 51 train from Pyongyang station.

    Are you ok?

  • QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.ml•China pressuring Iran to keep Strait of Hormuz open: report
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    27 days ago

    Didn’t read the link, did you? Classic. China is already supplying Iran with advanced radar, Beidou satellite access, rocket precursors, and dual-use components for SAM sites and drones. That is not “empty words”, that is tangible military hardware moving right now. But sure, keep screaming “actions not words” while ignoring the actual actions you were too lazy to click. Cope harder.

    You genuinely think slapping rare earth restrictions during a trade spat is the same as cutting off the US and Israel cold in a wartime ultimatum? One is calibrated economic pressure, the other is lighting the fuse on WW3. Did you think your reply through at all?

    Also wild that you demand China “prove” support by throwing citizens into a US-proxy meatgrinder. China already handed the US military its first strategic defeat in Korea with volunteers and bolt-action rifles when America had nukes and industry at its absolute peak. Today? China’s defensive industrial base outproduces the US in drones, rockets, ships, and jets. In a non-nuclear defensive war, China absolutely wins. And if you are still daydreaming about the US “coming after China militarily”, maybe google DF-61 before you type.

    Lastly, spare me the lecture on “supporting oppressed nations” from someone whose entire foreign policy knowledge comes from Western headlines. China lifted 800 million people out of poverty, builds ports and railways across the Global South without colonial strings or regime-change footnotes. China has done more for oppressed nations than any other group or nation that still exists. Again I say cope harder.