Former British Colony in Downward Spiral of Ethnic Violence, State Security Impunity

[Gilrandir]

I think the Polish killed and buried at Katyn might have an issue with that. Even after refusing to classify the killings as a war crime in the early 1990's, the Soviet answer to the whole issue was to blame it on Stalin. How Communist of them

The massacre had nothing to do with inequality issues - just exterminating the useless/dangerous people. And in this respect all were equal - people with certain political views could be disposed of, irrespective of their race, nationality, sex and so on.

But you forget about the difference between officially proclaimed doctrine and the actual practice. The latter included anti-semitism, the policy of eradicating national sentiment, melting all nationalities of the USSR into one ubernational entity - the Soviet people, criminal persecition of homosexuals and a lot of other things that were at odds with the officially sanctioned ideology of equality.

But methinks we are getting waaay off-topic here

I agree. Just look and the thread title.