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You make great points. In the end, both were terrible events but my anger derives from only one of the scenarios even being acknowledged in today's age. We seem to forget all the atrocities done in Stalin's regime but instead focus on American slavery and the holocaust. Why the holocaust receives almost all of the focus of WWII is beyond me when most likely more Poles were killed off by Stalin than jews by the Nazi regime. Basically, the allies allowed Stalin to get away with, and continue, his murderous grip because of his helping the allies in WWII. Funny that he didn't help the allies until after Germany turned on him, yet he still got away with it. The holocaust was terrible yet there are things occuring even today that are either equal to, or even more disturbing than it - Darfur comes to mind.

The similarities between American slavery and Stalin's reign are striking, but with the one stark contrast - African slaves were there to build a country, the gulags were there to cleanse one.

Declassified Soviet documents appear to state that the property of the deported Crimean Tatars and other minorities from Crimea during the World War II should be shipped to the new place and each deported family should be given a loan of about 5000 roubles for 7 years without charge for interest to start up in the new place [12][13]. J. Otto Pohl found that deportees were actually forced to leave their belongings behind, their property was confiscated and they have never received any compensation for it [14] and that the loans did not exist. Along with the deportation of Crimea Tatars, the Soviet government issued an order to deport Crimean Greeks, Armenians and Bulgarians [14]. Crimean Greeks were rounded up by the NKVD and put on overcrowded unhygienic trains for deportation; they lost their homes, their livestock, and most of their moveable property[14]. Deportees were exiled to special settlements, where conditions weren't significantly different from the Gulag[14].

During Stalin's rule the following ethnic groups were deported completely or partially: Ukrainians, Poles, Koreans, Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Finns, Bulgarians, Greeks, Armenians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and Jews. Large numbers of Kulaks, regardless of their nationality, were resettled to Siberia and Central Asia. Deportations took place in appalling conditions, often by cattle truck, and hundreds of thousands of deportees died en route [15]. Those who survived were forced to work without pay in the labour camps. Many of the deportees died of hunger or other conditions.