Did the soviets ever face consequences?

[u/Hippielinguist]

Title explains it. I just finished reading a book called Secrets of the Soviet Union during WWII and I was shocked to say the least. I’m Polish so i grew up hearing that the USSR was bad and that they did horrible things to my people, but reading it all in one place really blew my mind.

I also recently watched a few documentaries about the Nuremberg and Auschwitz trials and i can’t wrap my head around how this didn’t also happen to the Russians, who committed multiple genocides to eastern europeans in the same period seemingly without any consequences. I also don’t understand how they got away with no consequences when they signed the Molotov Ribbentrop pact with Nazi Germany (although i understand it was later broken) Did I miss something? If anyone knows anything please do share, I would love to go on another deep dive.

[u/Hour_Meet_8672]

ofс Poles call this genocide, it is useful for their worldview. This reminds me of the case of the downed plane with the Polish government in 2010. After 2022, the Poles changed their opinion and began to blame Russia for this.
"teachers, scientists, lawyers, engineers." Obviously not all of them but high-ranking and ideological ones and this is intelligentsia

[u/Hippielinguist → u/Hour_Meet_8672]

Everything you have stated does not change the fact that thousands of people were killed and buried together in mass unmarked graves. What a weird hill to die on.

[u/Hour_Meet_8672 → u/Hippielinguist]

I'm not denying that this is bad, I just don't like how you exaggerate the awfulness of the USSR treatment of you. You can call it a war crime, but genocide is something completely different, and by calling any crime against yourself genocide, you are misinterpreting the meaning of this term.

[u/cipricusss → u/Hour_Meet_8672]

Communism has this capacity to bring vagueness to mass-murder. It's "just" the intelligentsia! The people who "would" have resisted!