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05/25/10(Tue)00:29 No.709433>>709356 >A pretty convenient term for "anyone who isn't with us", isn't it?
Considering what was at stake, it was pretty apt. If you're referring to Kronstadt, it wasn't the Red Army who were doing the useless killing in that stupid encounter, especially when you consider the wider conflict. Had the garrison fallen to White or western forces, they would have had a clear sight over Petrograd from which to shell the city, and basically hold it to ransom. Thus the Red Army had to cross a semi-frozen sea while being fired on, because a bunch of so-called anarchists and peasant sons had unresolved grievances back home on the farm.
>Holodomor
You mean the Ukranian famine in the 1930s, under Stalin's industrial planning (which btw, was a genuine famine)? And? Had the White forces succeeded, Russia would have been rebooted to feudalism, and Russia would have been in no better, unstable condition, or potentially worse in the longer run. |