I’ve been arguing with some people over this whole Ukraine-Russia shit and somebody mentioned this.
What was the deal with this? Why did the USSR do this? What are the western history books not telling me here?
Also bonus question, what was the deal with the entire resettlement program? Why was it needed?
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The Soviet Union is completely open about the reasons for doing the deportations, you can either accept the logic or simply delcare that Stalin and the rest of the world proletariat was irrational or did it for the sake of cruelty.
I get that they had reasons, I just think they were shit and not well thought out reasons. They clearly made a mistake here.
