Is Russia Genocide of Stalin of 1930 Returning or the Rebuilding of a New Soviet Union?
Anthony Hernandez
Volunteer at Scobee Education Center and Educational Volunteer (NASA-STEM), Planetary Society-Member
As the Soviet Union was expanding under Joseph Stalin and was forcing people in the various countries, the Union took over by force and intimidation in creating a communist economy. No longer individual farmers or people growing their home gardens could own, but now was the state's property, no more personal ownership, and no compensation of taking the lands, foods, and livestock. Stalin imposed collectivization, which private ownership was no more, state-run and state ownership. Many well-to-do peasants resisted.?
The secret police sanction by Stalin's Communist Government used methods of taking food from homes of Ukrainian people, farm animals and leaving Ukrainian's food to eat or means to survive in growing their food, was now in the hands of the state. As more Ukrainians resisted, people were being arrested, beaten, detained and killed. The secret police had plans to deport up to 50,000 Ukrainians to Siberia. Millions of Ukrainians who had their farming livelihood and food taken away by authorities went to the door to steal all the family's food in their homes.
Ukraine was essential to Russia back in 1932 because it produced 60 percent of food for the Soviet Union before the forced takeover and doing away with private ownership. The way the state was taking lands of private owners left people with nothing to eat and created a famine of starvation in which up to 3.9 million Ukrainians died.
"Many people had no food and restored to dogs, cats, rats, crows, tree bark, etc. When new grass would appear in Springtime, people ate the grass and ended up with bowel obstruction. Cannibalism became rampant, people hunting and eating other people (especially children), and then eventually eating their children" (informnalm.org, p.9)
Many Ukrainian leaders, influencers, and those who opposed the state-controlled collective agriculture were executed or imprisoned. Stalin kept the Ukrainian genocide hidden until 1991 and when Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union. Finally, an archive document was made public as accusers called the famine and starvation "Holodomor" that inflicted death on 3.9 Ukrainians during the ruling of Stalin.
As Russia 2014 invaded and took over the Crimea peninsula and took the Ukrainian Naval base and its ships, Russia released Ukrainian military personnel. It only gave a few naval vessels back to Ukraine. Russia has been training and arming Ukrainian rebels in favor of Russian take over on the Eastern border, which has claimed over 14,000 people and military personnel from both countries in the seven-year war. The United Nations, the United States, and the Vatican did not say anything or even voice; the taking of Crimea was wrong.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the current President of The Russian Federation, the former USSR Union. Putin believes that the Russian and Ukrainian people are the same and should belong together. The actions and aggression that the world is witnessing the modern-day colonization.
Putin feels that any nation that supports and aids in giving military hardware is an act of aggression from supporters and NATO being the puppet master of Ukraine against the Russian Federation. Putin has accused Ukraine of inflaming the conflict of genocide and acts of aggression. Russia has not directly involved their ground troops, but Ukraine accuses Russia of training and arming separatists that favor Russian take over.
Putin sees the collapse of the USSR as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century". On the other hand, Ruslan Khasbulatov, the former speaker of the Parliament of Russia," sees "The USSR was a unique system (laprensalatina.com). Therefore, it is not surprising to see Russia or China willing to take over other countries and control to expand their Gross Domestic Product (GDP).?
Suppose Russia does invade and knowing no country will send troops to help Ukraine's defense. In that case, it will be a blood bath, could half of the Ukrainian military could be taken out, but now, many Russian soldiers would die from fighting the Ukrainian army. When people defend their homeland and know they will die, people will turn into "kamikazes."
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Ukrainian defenders will inflect a death rate of up to10 Russian soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier killed. The kill rate of Russian soldiers can be so staggering that the Russian military could see a repeat of the Afghanistan War for Russia, in which they pulled out. Then, it was Russia's Vietnam War, and the aggressive war against Ukraine could become their second Vietnam War.?
Even if Ukraine is defeated and is no more a sovereign country by Russia, the world will not see Russia too kindly but as an aggressor and a bully. Russia will lose at the end when The United Nations and countries of the world band together to place economic sanctions and bar Russia to the financial systems, banking systems, and import and exports to or from Russia.
Russia would run out of resources and finances that could cause Putin to lose internal control and decline the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). More young Russian citizens have been leaving Russia to seek better economic opportunities, which will affect Russia's ability to continue troop strength levels. Is Putin trying to rebuild a New Russia, a new Soviet Union, to strive as a world power leader? For starters, the retaking of former Soviet states such as Ukraine, Georgia, and Poland to help rebuild a New Russia.
I hope that Russia is only flexing their muscle and want certain guarantees from Western governments. We already have a pandemic and should work as a global community for the greater good of humankind, to solve the world's problems instead of destroying each other.
https://informnapalm.org/en/history-of-ukraine-the-genocide-of-ukrainians-by-stalin/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-and-ukraine-still-shaped-by-stalins-genocide_b_59b1a4eae4b0d0c16bb52b19
https://euromaidanpress.com/2018/06/03/putin-repeating-stalins-genocide-with-new-hybrid-deportation-of-crimean-tatars/
https://news.stanford.edu/2010/09/23/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310/
https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin
https://www.laprensalatina.com/30-years-later-putin-still-mourns-fall-of-soviet-union/