• Gigan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So 100,000 Tatars being killed is a genocide but 10,000,000 Ukrainians isn’t?

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      1 year ago

      The debate is on intent. If the cause was incompetence and bad policy, then it’s not genocide. It is, however, criminal incompetence.

      Also, unrelated to the argument, modern figures have it as fewer than 5 million deaths.