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hieronymusanonymous OP t1_ixyamuk wrote

Reply to comment by Diomas in German foreign minister welcomes efforts to declare Holodomor genocide - spokesperson by hieronymusanonymous

“The Kulaks are routed as a class but not finished off.”

  • Stalin, January, 1933, addressing the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

There's your intent and there is the portion of your ethnic group, as the kulaks were Ukrainian.

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Diomas t1_iy0baqe wrote

Kulak was a classification for a wealthy peasant farmer, not anything specific to Ukraine or any other minority nationality in the USSR. They were not by any means a national, ethnic, racial or religious group to put things into the context of the convention you'd mentioned.

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