#Russia channel coordinating the work of trolls called “Digital Army of Russia” has posted a task: on Victory Day, remind the people of Eastern Europe what nightmares the German “Plan Ost” was preparing for them, from which the #USSR saved them: physical extermination, genocide by means of artificially induced famine, deportation of masses of people to Siberia, the Caucasus, etc., extermination of educated elites.
That certainly sounds terrible, but there is only one minor problem: most of these genocidal policies were carried out by the USSR itself. Mass executions (Katyn, liquidation of NKVD prisons, the Great Purge), the Ukrainian Holodomor, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people to the same Siberia (including, for example, the ‘Polish NKVD operation’), mass murder of the intellectual elites of Poland, Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia itself. There’s simply no crime against humanity that the Soviets wouldn’t commit in Eastern Europe during the 70 years of their ruling.
Russian trolls shot themselves in the foot simply because they are unaware of all these colonial and genocidal policies of the USSR - this knowledge appeared in Russian education system briefly during 1990-2000’s but then was gradually reverted and NGOs documenting the historic repressions (e.g. “Memorial”) outlawed.
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