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Stalin managed to kill some ~50m people. On anyone's books, that's genocide.

That’s completely fake info, @valued-customer. You are believing western propaganda. There are birth record that clearly disprove this lie that you have accepted as truth.

How does people falling for propaganda make their national leader a NATO minion?

That is done through social engineering: Putting people in big cities where they are completely dependent on the corrupt bureaucratic structures, devoid from their historical identity, and in the end result is toxic individualism – a single person not aware of his community, its interests, and his/hers own rights… When petty, selfish individual interest become more important than everything else, that always lead to disaster.

I note that I base my understanding on the statement of Solzhenitsyn, not someone from the West, but an eyewitness to the purges and pogroms that devoured the Russian people. I doubt any government records are remotely conceivably produced by people as accorded integrity as Solzhenitsyn. While I have not, and do not, support the 'Russia, Russia, Russia' propaganda that has been spewed by Western media to bamboozle society in the West, neither am I unaware of the incessant propaganda and false narratives emitted by Eastern, government controlled media. Little is easier for them to manipulate than government records.

However, I also note that what you suggest is 'toxic individualism' involves not defending individual rights, which is characteristic not of the West, but of the CCCP and the CCP, which have considered people as but possessions of the state rather than sovereigns availed of human rights - at least until quite recently, when plandemic gulags and mass mandates to suffer medical testing of biowarfare agents have reduced the West to a similar subjugation to that suffered by Russian and Chinese populations, at least in terms of their world view.

Rather than toxic individuality, you are referring to toxic subsumation in fabricated world view, the tendency of H. sapiens to conform to social expectations that today are imposed by psychopathic overlords, and individuality is notably a refutation of that noxious and fraudulent propaganda promoting the traditionally Eastern subjugation to government mandate, rather than a respect for human rights. It is the descent of the West to this toxic collectivism that today encourages children to participate in perverse sexual practices with pedopaths that want nothing more than to defile all that is good and holy - the trait most in evidence in the oligarchy.

We are all subjected, indeed inundated with vile propaganda, and the best we can do is to seek as people to relate to other people, even if they are overwhelmed by different propaganda than we have been. That is something that has characterized our mutual respect and support for these last few years on Hive, and I intend to continue as long as I live and breathe.

I doubt any government records are remotely conceivably produced by people as accorded integrity as Solzhenitsyn.

You are also unaware that there are two Solzhenitsyns. The first one who was spitting on USSR so he could have his life in the West, and the other one, who have admitted a mistake and return to Russia.

And you are still believing more to an author, a writer who has made many fictitious events, instead of a historian, who has facts and documents…

If you're just going to neglect the majority of my statements, I will thank you for your criticisms and proceed to consider them at length.