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      The recent comments are surprisingly tame. I had to scroll a surprisingly long way down before even finding someone saying TSM was real, but here is some of what I found.

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        That 4th. pic is how every conversion about Holodomor goes. First it’s “Wow the government just did that. They took away all the food and said anyone who objected was a kulak.”

        When you point out kulaks destroyed food stockpiles, slaughtered the animals, salted the fields, poisoned the wells, then fled the country, it’s “Well that’s just their right to do with their property!”

        Schodinger’s gusano: both not responsible for causing the famine and also justified in causing the famine.

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    I agree with a few of his criticisms of Hakim’s video. He failed to establish why the eyewitness reports that side with him are more credible than those that disagree (calls them fabricated but didn’t seem to support that) and put too much emphasis on the Chai Ling interview without showing that she was a leader or massively influential in the protests. He claims that the will of the people was subverted but doesn’t justify that within the video.

    That said, I think reacting to and critiquing the video isn’t worth much if you don’t at least attempt to tackle the death count. Just throwing out that some estimates go as high as 10k without judging them at all is worthless at best. If 10k people died then I think it’s pretty obviously a massacre.