• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    The 1930s soviet famine was not an attempt at colonialism, nor intentional. At best, it was made worse by mismanagement, but to compare it to colonialism or the Holocaust is a severe misrepresentation of it. Genocide and atrocities predated colonialism, this is true, but the point is that Hitler is so uniquely despised among the world at a universal level precisely due to the fact that he directed colonialism towards the rest of Europe. Western powers were no stranger to the kinds of brutal torture committed by the Nazis, their victims were just largely non-white.