![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An obvious question, and one not tackled by McMeekin, is why this genocidal Politburo decree has not acquired the same notoriety in the US and the West generally as it has among Ukrainians and others. Referring to the genocide in Ukraine – the Holodomor – McMeekin points out that the Politburo decree on the liquidation of kulak households has, for Ukrainians and others who were targeted by it, ‘acquired the same notoriety in the history of Soviet famine as the Wannsee Protocols of January 1942 has in the history of the Holocaust’. McMeekin does not explicitly address this question in Stalin’s War but it is intrusive and ever present, along with the millions of Stalin’s victims, the executed, the tortured, the starved, the betrayed, the imprisoned, those deported and worked to death, and the raped, all crying out to be heard, demanding to be heard. In any examination of Stalin’s many wars and monstrous vendettas a fundamental question is whether the ideological core and practice of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism constituted a greater catastrophe for the world than National Socialism. ![]()
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