Yes, the orders were given by the politburo. However the manner of execution of those orders was in the hands of local communist authorities. It wasn't ethnic Russians vs ethnic Ukrainians; it wasn't Russia vs Ukraine. It was communists against all others. Some Ukrainians fought communists and used nationalist rethoric, exactly as some Russians fought Communists and used monarchist rethoric 10 years before. But it doesn't matter!KrazyKraut said:The orders for the collectivizations were issued either directly from the politburo in Moscow or at least according to guidelines given out by the politburo. Same goes for the executions of clergy, intellectuals etc. The migration-prohibit came DIRECTLY from Stalin. The roots are in Russia, whether you like that or not. Don't eve act as if Ukraine was in any way a souvereign country. The, as you call, it "multinational government of Ukraine" was nothing but the prolonged arm of the Soviet CPSU directed by Moscow. It's like saying the Nazis in Germany weren't responsible for what happened in Vichy-France.
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