Quote (InsaneBobb @ Jun 3 2022 06:36pm)
Perhaps you should go back and read your own unreliable sources. The Soviet Famine hit the ENTIRE USSR. Including Russia. It was not "Russia" or "The Russian People" who caused it. The Soviet Union is dead. It's gone. It collapsed. The government is over. Any animosity related to it is long sense dealt with when it comes to the US.
Russia is not the Soviet Union. Russia was merely a region in the Soviet Union. Stalin and Lenin are dead. The entire market economy and system of governance are completely changed. Russia is not the Soviet Union. Russia is not our enemy. Russia has done nothing negative whatsoever to the United States since 1992, and indeed, have been a valued and loyal trade partner, even through all the shifting political winds and temper tantrums. Even past all the US and European maneuvering to box them up against a wall.
Man, I love this "It was done by the Russian People". What? So you're telling me that the people in charge of Russia today, are the same exact people who were in command of the Soviet Union in 1933?
Tell me more. You're starting to sound interesting, in that weird sort of way that most war mongers with absolutely no knowledge of history, geopolitics, or diplomacy is concerned. :)
Central planners kept the devastation localized in Ukraine. How is it that the breadbasket of the Soviet Union suffered the worst, Bob? How is it that food was distributed to the other SSRs while Ukraine suffered a population loss of roughly 1 in 7 people?
Tell the Ukrainians there's no more animosity. I'm sure they'll believe you. Russia has been abusing Ukraine for over a century. Ukraine declared its independence from Russia in 1918, only to have their government overthrown by the Russians. They lived under Soviet domination for another 70 years, and Russia has been meddling in their affairs since their independence.