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I appreciate that and you're not wrong. But the topic of the conversation was Stalin killing a lot of people and not just CEOs. While western media has over exaggerated the numbers, it's still a substantial amount. It's well documented that he purged a lot of dissenters in the government and military.
You don't really know that, you haven't really provided anything but wikipedia articles. You have looked at no first hand sources and you have provided none.
No, the topic was stalin killing a bunch of CEOs, then you chimed in. The post isn't a discussion post wanting to engage in vague allegations from people who will feverishly search the wikipedia references for the first book with a title that sounds like it'll support their claims.
Yeah, nazis. We've been through this. At least look through the black book of communism.
You and I can argue the numbers until we're both blue in the face. But the fact of the matter is he did purge a lot of people out of Russian politics and society. If you think that's an incorrect statement than you need to explain why.
Part of the problem is that even the Soviet perspective on what happened during Stalin’s time in power is in question. Khrushchev clearly lied about the extent to which Stalin was a brutal dictator. I suspect he did that to distance his own government from the brutality of the decisions the Soviet government was forced to make in order to survive through WWII. Capitalist countries were happy accept that narrative because it aligned with their desire to portray socialism as an abject failure equivalent to fascism. As such, by the time the Soviet archives were opened up for academics to research what actually took place during Stalin’s reign, the narratives concerning him were already set in stone.
No disagreements on what you said.
In another discussion on this thread I quoted some numbers provided from declassified documents from the USSR after it's fall. And even those have numbers in the millions. It seems those are the generally accepted numbers among historians.