Orostan wrote:1) This is not true. The Soviet Union did not have time to sort through every person of an ethnic group that collaborated with the Germans or the resources. The Soviet Union was not racist in the slightest here, as deporting ethnic groups was not done out of a dislike of those groups. Had that been true, the USSR would not have given economic assets to them and provided supplies.
2) The issue was high rates of collaboration. The millions of Soviet partisans and Tripp’s that fought for the Soviet Union versus the groups that fought against it make for a low rate among Russians. Even then, the Soviet government took measures after the war to make sure that Russian collaborators did not get away by keeping all former POWs in camps while they sorted through them, eventually releasing 80% of them.
3) Ethnic cleansing is not legitimate, and the reason why I dispute your idea that this was ethnic cleansing is because the deported were given supplies and houses in Central Asia to establish themselves. Had the USSR wanted to remove them permanently, they’d have exiled them from the country or something.
4) Yes, there was expropriation. Yes, the exiles were a bad thing, and I’d prefer it if they could have been avoided. However, for points described above, this does not constitute evidence of racism or evidence of a master ethnicity.
5) It is not generous. It is the bare minimum the Soviet state should have done and did.
6) I can find no evidence that they starved, only that they froze and had disease problems. I already said before that I don’t like either of these things and that I do not think it was deliberate.
Also, I don’t think the NKVD killed people. I can only find some statements that they wrote down the names of those they didn’t get to deport later. I can however find claims that the NKVD did burn people to death and kill prisoners at the start of WWII. It is not a coincidence these claims come from Nazi Germany.
And lastly, I will never unironically say “stalin did nothing wrong”. Stalin made mistakes, many of which I think could have been avoided had he done things differently.