>>Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz
>>investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide:
>>the Soviet Union under Stalin,
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>Stalin never attempted genocide. If you start applting "genocide" to every
>case of mass murder, it will lose its meaning pretty quickly.
i don't have a dog in the fight and, I too, tend to find the use of the term genocide problematic in the same way i find the use of the word nazism/facism applied to everything someone doesn't like.
but, i have to ask, who was stalin targeting for mass murder?