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According to David Matas, outside the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia had more political prisoners than all of the rest of Eastern Europe combined. [236] Tito's secret police was modeled on the Soviet KGB. Its members were ever-present and often acted extrajudicially, [237] with victims including middle-class intellectuals, liberals and democrats. [238]
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is a 1997 [note 1] book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics [note 2] documenting a history of political repression by communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and allegedly artificially created ...
Robert Davies, Stephen Kotkin, and Stephen Wheatcroft reject the notion that Stalin intentionally wanted to kill the Ukrainians, but exacerbated the situation by enacting bad policies and ignorance of the problem, [29] [30] which, according to historian John Archibald Getty, was the overwhelming weight of opinion among scholars who studied the ...
[81] [3] British historian Michael Ellman argues that mass deaths from famines should be placed in a different category than the repression victims, mentioning that throughout Russian history famines and droughts have been a common occurrence, including the Russian famine of 1921–1922, triggered by Stalin's predecessor Vladimir Lenin's war ...
Historian David Reynolds on what Winston Churchill really thought about Hitler, Stalin and other enemies.
The reason is simple: as a rule, people who discuss these figures are trying to convey a very specific point, namely, that Stalinism killed more people than Nazism. However, a comparison of excess mortality during Stalin's rule with mass killings perpetrated by Nazi is a comparison of apples with oranges. And, we must keep in mind that excess ...
‘If we gave as much/GDP to Ukraine as Estonia does, Ukraine would likely have won long ago. Ukrainian victory is what matters and we are the slackers,’ Timothy Snyder says
A high-ranking Russian politician has compared U.S. President Donald Trump to former German dictator and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The comments came after the U.S., UK, and France launched ...