>Yes, this makes a whole lot of sense. Stalin takes a time out in the
>middle of the most vicious war the world has ever seen to reallocate
>resources and manpower to deport a couple of hundred thousand people
>for no other reason than shits and giggles...
and follows with NKVD cable traffic from...1944, six months after Kursk, with the Nazis in full retreat along their whole Eastern front. That is, the moment military victory had freed the resources needed to impose vicious collective punishment on hundreds of thousands of innocents.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64