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I cited multiple sources, and you seem to only be responding to one of my points when I responded to the entirety of yours. You also seem to have your talking points confused, because the Russian Duma does not say that the 1930s famine was a genocide:
Per Wikipedia. The right-wing post-soviet government declared it a problem of mismanagement to discredit socialism as socialism is still popular in Russia and would hurt their present capitalist class, but were insistent even then not to call it a genocide, because there's no evidence. Even Kotkin admits that it wasn't intentional nor engineered. You have no proof nor any idea what you're talking about, again, it's all reflex from you. It's just MAGA on your part. Again, what's the point? To convince me? Never going to happen with this level of "argument." To convince others? Nobody else is here agreeing with you.
Since you seem to want direct sources, here's a link to 3 PDFs of Tauger's work, and you can check historians like Grover Furr's work on the 1930s famine as well. I simply went with Tauger because he is more accepted among liberal historians as the foremost expert, but if we reference explicitly communist historians there are far more.
For example, Chinese scholars like Li Yan and Shen Lihua both affirm Tauger's point, that there was no deliberate famine, but instead that it was a combination of weather disaster, sabotage, and mismanagement. None of this points to genocide or settler-colonialism, in fact the Soviet government was overwhelmingly supportive of Ukraine throughout its existence and treated it like the poster child of soviet socialism.
Israel states no genocide in Palestine. We can go home now, nothing to see here.
Lol, just having a little tantrum because even you know you're in the wrong
Tantrum?
You really don't have any clue what you're talking about, do you? You were the one that brought up the Duma, I referenced actual scholars, including firmly anti-communist scholars like Kotkin. Truth doesn't matter to you in the slightest, just using historic tragedy to bat for billionaires and a predatory system of capitalism. You aren't even trying to convince anyone, so why bother?
I already admitted to all genocides committed by capitalists, so I don't know how I'm defending them. You really see this a sports team thing, right? BTW lol @ "scholars"
So you condemn the Ukrainian genocide in Donbas?
I'm not aware of the details, so I don't have an opinion one wya or the other. Ukrainians have committed war crimes before, no idea of genocide by strict definition.
How is that relevant to the Russian/Soviet genocides? Are you just saying that they are lynching negroes?