[lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters

[Chris Doss]

> >The only occasions I can think of when groups were targeted for ethnic 
>grounds were when the Chechen, Ossetian and Ingush populations were 
>deported en masse in WWII because some were allying with Hitler. 25% of 
>those populations died, but it was not genocide. Putting people on cattle 
>carls and relocating them to desolate areas is not how tou commit genocde; 
>you do that by putting them in cattle cars and relocating them to death 
>camps.
>
>No, that is genocide. When you seek to eliminate an entire ethnic group, 
>that is genocide. Merely killing millions of people isn't genocide, but 
>seeking to eliminate an entire people is definitely genocide. Its to do 
>with the objective, not the means.
>
>Bill Bartlett
>Bracknell Tas
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Yeah, but I don't think there WAS an attempt to eliminate those peoples. 
(Though I'm no Stalin scholar.) Stalin could have had them all shot if he 
had wanted to. Instead, the Chechens lived in Kazakhstan for 12 years.

Stalin himself is usually refered to as a Georgian, but he was actually a 
Georgian North Ossetian, by the way.

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