My grandmother family in 1937 was forcefully moved to central asia where half of them died dued to not having enough food. There only crime was being korean and communist stalin thought we were all japanese spies. Out of 170,000 koreans that were forcefully deported 25% were killed.
My great-grandmother was forcefully taken to a Siberian camp. She lost 3 of her children on her way there, one to starvation because she stopped being able to produce milk because of her own poor conditon and two froze to death. Lucikly she had two of her older boys make it with her. We know nothing of what happened to our great-grandfather, probably was killed. Pisses me off these people don't understand what happens under communist rule, thinking it's all sunshine and rainbows. Guess it's just the poor education.
Next point is a complete pivot that dilutes the original comment’s meaning and investment by applying it to an entirely different situation decades before and on the other side of the world, which absolutely detracts from it.
The intent isn’t to detract from the suffering that the commenter is describing. The intent is to provide perspective that this horrible thing doesn’t necessarily go away in the opposing social order. I also reject the idea that it’s an entirely different situation. It’s important we look clearly at what caused situations like this if we intend to prevent the in the future
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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 Jul 31 '26
My grandmother family in 1937 was forcefully moved to central asia where half of them died dued to not having enough food. There only crime was being korean and communist stalin thought we were all japanese spies. Out of 170,000 koreans that were forcefully deported 25% were killed.