What are your views on anarchism?

[The Mikado]

It's worth pointing out that the people defining the legal term "genocide" included...the USSR, who insisted that it not include killing people for political reasons but only ethnic or religious reasons specifically to prevent that charge from getting levied against them, and that Raphael Lemkin, the originator of "genocide" as a word, was horrified that the Soviets managed to define the term in a way to excuse their own actions in Ukraine etc.

Also, even by the ethnic definition, rounding up over twenty two thousand of the intellectual, political, military, and economic leaders of Poland, shipping them off to a secluded forest near Smolensk, shooting them and shoving them in a mass grave, and then claiming that the Nazis did it once the crime was uncovered is pretty blatantly a crime against the Polish nationality.

[The Mikado]

It's a shame TNF has left the thread, I'd really like his perspective on the Katyn Massacre and the intentional murder of 22,000+ Polish prisoners of war six months after their capture, many of whom were civilians, and how this attempted decapitation of the Polish nation and attempt to destroy Polish culture doesn't rise to the level of "genocide," especially when put into the context of the many other crimes the USSR committed against Polish Soviet citizens and the citizens of occupied Poland in World War II, many of which crimes were committed during the period 1939-1941 when the Soviets were working as very happy allies of Nazi Germany and certainly not as "liberators from fascist oppression" or any such nonsense.