My fathers family lived through that “Harvest of Sorrows.”
Not many families were as lucky, and didn’t survive.
He only talked about those days a few times towards the end of his life. They were much too painful for him to talk about them more often.
There were parents who killed and ate their children, and children who killed and ate their parents.
Stalin often gets second billing to Hitler as the 20th Century’s greatest monster. I think he should get equal billing. And so, too, should Mao. They make Pol Pot look like a piker – no insult meant to the millions of dead in Cambodia, but, compared to the tens of millions of deaths “The Big Three” were responsible for, he truly wasn’t on their level. Not that, given a chance, he wouldn’t have tried.
Thanks for keeping a light shined on the flames of horror that Stalin stoked.
The Russians are trying to take revenge on Turkey by insisting that the Armenian genocide should be recognized. I’m all for recognizing the Armenian genocide, but it’s beyond hypocritical that the Russians who refuse to recognize the Holodomor should bring up other instances of genocide in such a moralizing way.
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My fathers family lived through that “Harvest of Sorrows.”
Not many families were as lucky, and didn’t survive.
He only talked about those days a few times towards the end of his life. They were much too painful for him to talk about them more often.
There were parents who killed and ate their children, and children who killed and ate their parents.
Stalin often gets second billing to Hitler as the 20th Century’s greatest monster. I think he should get equal billing. And so, too, should Mao. They make Pol Pot look like a piker – no insult meant to the millions of dead in Cambodia, but, compared to the tens of millions of deaths “The Big Three” were responsible for, he truly wasn’t on their level. Not that, given a chance, he wouldn’t have tried.
Thanks for keeping a light shined on the flames of horror that Stalin stoked.
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The Russians are trying to take revenge on Turkey by insisting that the Armenian genocide should be recognized. I’m all for recognizing the Armenian genocide, but it’s beyond hypocritical that the Russians who refuse to recognize the Holodomor should bring up other instances of genocide in such a moralizing way.
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Yes.
Almost comical, though not even remotely funny…cc
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