This column poses the question that we have been discussing all semester. Was the Ukranian famine of the late 1940's a holocaust as we understand the meaning of the term? David Mittell is a projo columnist that frequently writes about the Ukraine and its tortured history. This piece (which was in the paper yesterday) explores the question posed above. Our class rightly paints Adolf Hitler as a mass murderer of millions, but his Soviet counterpart Josef Stalin is known to have killed millions more and oversaw cruelty the likes of which the world had never seen. His atrocities were largely hidden because he was a wartime ally of the U.S., and because Soviet Russia was an incredibly secretive society. I will post part two of this article when published.
David A. Mittell Jr.: Genocide? You decide | Columnists | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal | Breaking news
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Another dictator ... while opposed to Hitler politically and militarily, carried on policies the resulted in the killing of millions of his own(given the USSR)people. You pose an interesting question concerning the number of deaths the (esp. in Ukraine) and the level of the atrocities committed by Stalin.
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