I know it was deployed against Iraqis during the first Gulf War, with Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more.

I don’t doubt r**e was a claim made against Iraqis too, but it’s the absurd claim about soldiers taking babies from incubators that most sticks out in my memory when it comes to Iraq and the first Gulf War. However, Hilary Clinton talking about soldiers being given viagra was definitely about Gaddafi. Keep in mind who was in power when those respective conflicts were happening.

Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more

Wasn’t that Gaddafi? The timeline doesn’t match, since Viagra wasn’t even on the market until the late 90s (hard to forget the time hack Viagra jokes were suddenly everywhere). Also, why would Hillary have said anything? H.W. Bush was president then.

Espresso Stalinist has their flaws, but they hosted an interesting write-up about it https://espressostalinist.com/2014/08/24/the-doctors-plot/

Riumin’s actions seem really suspect throughout the events

edit: oh and here is Bill Bland’s book on the topic. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/1991/10/doctors-case-death-stalin.pdf

I will say the “rootless cosmopolitanism” campaign is pretty tropey and gross

That’s similar to what I’ve heard, I hope someone can enlighten us a bit more

Here’s the link to the 2007 for future reference. Most of the results that show up on Google are from Wikipedia itself (like this one) which comes with its own problems.

The biggest point to note, however, is that Wikipedia relies on third-party sources to back up their claims, and being a primarily english-speaking, west-hosted service, a lot of these sources will be sometimes biased and sometimes from authors who straight up make shit up. I found this Reddit post on r/communism from ~2yrs ago of a user who scrutinized the sources on its page for Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens and found many anti-communist authors present.

Also naming the Soviet famine is literally stolen valor by Nazis. Using it as justification for lebensraum

The name Holodomor was chosen because it sounds like Holocaust. i.e the Holocaust of the would-be Aryan race lmao.

Very funny that they mention starving children considering peasant landlords were doing exactly that in direct defiance of the redistributive agenda of the Soviet state.

They want to feed little children during the famine? They should thank Stalin and the peasant armies for holding the Kulaks at gunpoint to give it to them.

Kulaks would have loved to starve them out, poor people and their children were useless eaters in their eyes.

This statement is essentially racist because it implies that Russians are inherently inclined towards rape or something, because otherwise the Putin regime and the Stalin led USSR have nothing in common politically.

I don’t know if I would classify it as racism… unless you are claiming Russians aren’t normally perceived as white. It may be ethnically prejudice, but a large aspect of ethnicity is culture.

While race may have no indication on political ideology or creed, ethnicity is firmly rooted in the history of a common people. Political organization may come and go, but there is usually still cultural norms that persist after their reorganization.

Despite Russia changing from a true monarchy, to communism, and finally a federation, the aspect of the government that changed the least was how their military was organized and operated.

Being conscripted by the Russian empire was basically a death sentence due to the length of contract, so much so that your family would throw you a funeral before you left. The command structure was strictly top down, and your fellow conscripts were in charge of maintaining discipline.

This rough outline persisted with the USSR, which makes sense when you realize a lot of the general staff were also generals in the empire. The main aspect that transfered over pertaining to this claim is how the soviets conscripted soldiers, and how they maintain discipline over these conscripts.

A great perspective from an actual Soviet about this topic is Zinky boys, which covers the Soviet Afghan war. Basically, evading conscription was very very easy for anyone who had the money for a bribe, or could play the system. Meaning that the majority of conscripts were either petty criminals or the rural poor.

Which leads us to discipline…how do you keep a half million farmers and small bit criminals in military discipline? Well you have the conscripts do it themselves. Your first two years as a conscript you were beaten, robbed, and often times raped. After you graduated your two years, you would be doing the beating ,robbing, and raping.

This seems hyperbolic, but it’s been widely reported from soldiers serving the Russian state for decades. The Russian federation has done the best when it comes to moving towards a regular professional army, but there are still wide spread reports of violent hazing and predation within their military. Though admittedly a lot less than what happened in Afghanistan or in chechnya.

Basically, race doesn’t really behave anything to do with war crimes. It’s usually entirely based on how bad it is to be a soldier in the military you are serving, and how a military disciplines their soldiers.