[HN Gopher] How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian ...
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       How Joseph Stalin Starved Millions in the Ukrainian Famine
        
       Author : throwkeep
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-08-02 20:41 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | MrBingley wrote:
       | Recently I've been reading Vasily Grossman's _A Writer At War_ ,
       | which is a collection of his journals from the Eastern Front, and
       | the depths of Stalin's brutality are staggering. In the Battle of
       | Stalingrad he forbade that any citizens flee the city since he
       | thought it would motivate the troops, and special battalions were
       | set up behind the front line to shoot any who retreated. In the
       | battle itself Soviet snipers targeted the German water carriers,
       | and so the Germans bribed children with food to fetch water for
       | them, who were promptly shot since any collaboration with the
       | enemy was punished with death.
        
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