I mean yeah you could compare it to the Armenian genocide, since quickly forcing a large group of people into a less hospitable region without any support is an act of genocide. Whether that be abandoning them in a desert or forcing them into a narrow strip of land that you blockade.
Also the Holocaust isn’t the only concentration camps have been used, wasn’t even the first. The first official use of them was during the Boer Wars.
quickly forcing a large group of people into a less hospitable region without any support is an act of genocide
Eh. When this is done to a specific ethnicity I agree. The Soviet peasants quickly forced large numbers of kulaks to the east without much support and I wouldn’t call it a genocide because they weren’t threatening any ethnic or cultural group
Still generally a bad thing to do. I’d argue that was one of the Soviet Unions bigger Ls. Forced relocation rarely goes well, even when there’s some justification for it.
Still generally a bad thing to do. I’d argue that was one of the Soviet Unions bigger Ls
I’d argue much larger Ls were actually centrally directed policies of ethnic relocation such as the deportations of Crimean Tatars or Koreans.
The deportations of Kulaks happened at a time of need in which forced expropriation of the land by the peasants was imperative to the rapid industrialization NEEDED to fulfill the economic plans that enabled the extremely fast industrialization of the USSE which ultimately saved the world from Nazism. Furthermore, those deportations were mostly decided by local soviets of peasants who had suffered under the thumb of said Kulaks for decades, and said Kulaks fought back against collectivization as a class. It was an act of class warfare, not an ethnic cleansing.
I mean yeah you could compare it to the Armenian genocide, since quickly forcing a large group of people into a less hospitable region without any support is an act of genocide. Whether that be abandoning them in a desert or forcing them into a narrow strip of land that you blockade.
Also the Holocaust isn’t the only concentration camps have been used, wasn’t even the first. The first official use of them was during the Boer Wars.
Eh. When this is done to a specific ethnicity I agree. The Soviet peasants quickly forced large numbers of kulaks to the east without much support and I wouldn’t call it a genocide because they weren’t threatening any ethnic or cultural group
Perhaps.
Still generally a bad thing to do. I’d argue that was one of the Soviet Unions bigger Ls. Forced relocation rarely goes well, even when there’s some justification for it.
I’d argue much larger Ls were actually centrally directed policies of ethnic relocation such as the deportations of Crimean Tatars or Koreans.
The deportations of Kulaks happened at a time of need in which forced expropriation of the land by the peasants was imperative to the rapid industrialization NEEDED to fulfill the economic plans that enabled the extremely fast industrialization of the USSE which ultimately saved the world from Nazism. Furthermore, those deportations were mostly decided by local soviets of peasants who had suffered under the thumb of said Kulaks for decades, and said Kulaks fought back against collectivization as a class. It was an act of class warfare, not an ethnic cleansing.