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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷5/18/2018 12:25:19 am PDT

re: #182 Kragar

He had thousands of civilians executed for being loyal to the opposition.

Reading through Wikipedia’s article [citation needed], I can’t find that. Perhaps you can point me to a Website that documents that?

While not trying to apologise for what Trotsky might have done in this assertion, I would note the concept of “war crime” did not yet exist. Through WW2 armies always used attacks on civilians to create terror, drive refugees to cause confusion to an opponent, disrupt the enemy rear, &c. (The worst instances of attacking civilians would be Nanking by the Japanese, Dresden by the Allies, and atomic weapons on Japan by the United States).