War's Unwomanly Face - Vol. 2 Ch. 8

[MangaDex]

 

[SuperOniichan]

As for Alekseivich, it was too small for a stone towards Stalin. Anyway, thanks for the chapter. I appreciate your translation speed.

 

[Misiakk]

Soviets were no better then nazis, worse even.

 

[kazaddum]

@Misiakk: Found the Nazi. Funny how you ghouls love mango so much.

Also lul, literally perpetuating the Hololololdomor-myth. There were several famines in Ukraine, most famously 1932, which had an affected area deep into Khazakhstan. But the causes were natural for the most part. And I say "most" because the Kulaks (rich peasants) literally destroyed food and killed cattle in their resistance of collectivization. Making the famine so much worse.
The worst was only prevented by the reallocation of grain southwards.

They did so too in the previous famines, no collectivization was enforced then. The third time the army was sent. And it worked, from then on the USSR was on the way of defeating famine. From 1949 to 1991 there was no famine anywhere in the USSR. Of course, capitalism then ruined that track record.😀

 

[SuperOniichan]

@kazaddum Don't feed the troll.

 

[kwendy]

Speaking the famine of 1930-s: secretary Kosior's telegrams are interesting read. Curious thing is that he is both regarded as Stalin's lapdog and innocent victim of Stalin's repressions. Go figure.

 

[Gunlord500]

Quite a hammer of a chapter, thanks as always for the translations. I hadn't heard of Ales Adamovich before, I think I ought to read his work if I can get my hands on English translations.

 

[SuperOniichan]

@kwendy The funny thing is that the officials who lied to Stalin about the absence of hunger and were then shot because of this are now declared to be his minions. Stalin is objectively a bloody dictator (My grandmother was a fiery communist politician, but even she hated him), but it is rather stupid to use this as a loophole. It seems that in the Eastern European countries in this context, Stalin has become something like Hitler, with whom the populists associate any people or things that they want to discredit.

@Gunlord500 If you are interested in Adamovich, then just watch the movie "Come and See". It is a pity that at the end of his life such a writer demonized political opponents and justified Yeltsin's violence against them in 1993. In Soviet Russia, the democrats repress the rights, yes, hehe.

 

[OmegaKaiser]

Светлана лучшая девочка, когда ей хочется написать свою книгу, товарищи.

Seriously, though, I gotta give her credit for challenging the Leonid Brezhnev regime when she started the research for her book.

 

[Edixo]

holy fuck this manga

 

[SuperOniichan]

@OmegaKaiser Щас бы шутить про товарищей в контексте Аликсеевич, которая сначала восхваляла Дзержинского, а потом быстро перекрасилась и как заправский националист оправдывала ограничения в адрес русского языка и пресследование пророссийских украинцев. После чего, поняв сколько она себе наговорила, запретив публикацию интервью и пытаясь запретить его где-либо выкладывать. Типичный постсоветский советливый интеллигент, чья совестливость на самом деле лишь популизм в угоду новой линии новой партии.

Brezhnev's regime, huh. Sounds like "Kobzon's dictatorship". She fought so much against the regime that by the end of the 80s, the circulation of this book was already estimated at two million copies.

 

[dreminh]

@OmegaKaiser yep Leonid Brezhnev is one hell of a Stalinist , even Stalin's daughter gone to America because he pushed her into propaganda idol

 

[SuperOniichan]

@dreminh Hah, Svetlana denied all her life that her flight was caused by political reasons. Not to mention the fact that Brezhnev spent most of his "reign" in insanity and instead of him the country was ruled by old nomenklatura bureaucrats. In her own words, she planned to return from the United States in a month, but officials began to threaten that they would make her restricted to travel if she did not abandon her plans to stay in India. As for Stalinism, at one time she even visited the Stalin Museum in the then Soviet Georgia.

 

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

Thanks for the translation

 

[Robbini]

@SuperOniichan

The Holodomor was caused by the soviets, by either seizing or selling the ukrainian grain (if seized, for their 'own people', if sold then to finance the rapid rise of the industry)

 

[SuperOniichan]

@Robbini This explanation is like saying that the Second World War started because the Germans were very angry lol. And yes, dude, tell us something more about the Holodomor to the son and grandson of the folks from Western Ukraine.

 

[Robbini]

@SuperOniichan

There was a famine / crop failure in Eastern Europe atleast.
The soviets made that worse by seizing ukrainian grain to feed russian people.

 

[SuperOniichan]

@Robbini Please spare me your lazy theories. It's enough for me that a foreigner is trying to tell me something about the history of my country.

 

[Robbini]

@SuperOniichan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Theories ?
If you want to consider an internationally acknowledged event as a theory, even when Ukraine, Russia, USA and 22 other nations in 2003 proclaimed it had happened and it had been a terrible thing, well...

 

[SuperOniichan]

@Robbini The fact that the famine occurred does not mean that it was a deliberate genocide. This is the first thing. Second, with the same logic, you could post me a link to the Ukrainian Wikipedia, which claims that Stalin was going to destroy all Ukrainians. Once again, stop persecuting me, I have lived in Ukraine for more than 20 years and I know about it better than any foreigner.