7mil Ukrainians. wow, that’s a number
nearly all of diaspora, descendants of volunteer ww2 nazis fleeing USSR war crimes “persecutions”
Modern estimates tend closer to 3-5 million, but 1984 was before the opening of the Soviet archives to researchers.
what I really meant is that it’s quite a bullshit. Stalinist repressions affected a wide range of nationalities and likely total around a million. this includes dekulakization which was pretty much a necessity given the economic circumstances. the number of Ukrainians affected is unlikely to be in millions (I also don’t think it’s morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country). I think often the people mix up the # of deaths during the famine with Stalin’s repressions, which is quite a stretch, since the former was really hard to avoid given the damages done during the civil war.
