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Don't ask about the NKVD's Polish Operation either (lemmy.world)

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gonna go ahead and say that

4000 were deported back to Germany, where they ended up in concentration camps

Counts as a "had them killed," so

Others, among them the elite of the later SED, e.g. Pieck, Ulbricht and Mielke, stayed in the USSR.

Are the only ones who are the

Not, all

Still correct, but damn son.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

4000 were deported back to Germany, where they ended up in concentration camps

Counts as a "had them killed,"

Yes, likely to a large share. Stalin sent those members of the KPD to (almost) certain death, who weren't completely in line with the Stalinist ideology. If they belonged to the party elite, there were rightoff killed by the NKVD directly.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

I feel like you're ascribing a kind of logic to Stalin's purges that didn't exist. It definitely wasn't as straightforward or honest as determining what your ideology was, and then killing you if it wasn't the right one. You know the joke about "10 years hard labor for nothing? That can't be right..."?