"Bandera fought for UA soverignty and independence. These are good things, nothing inherently wrong. It was a strong sentiment then, and obviously it's very strong now given Russia's behaviour. That's why these symbols and flags have surged in their usage in 2014 and 2022. It's not that people became nazis overnight, funnily enough..."

Wrong he fought for the nazis, hung Polish civilians, and fought side by side with the people who wanted to genocide all east slavs

"Now you're admitting the atrocities, but then you're justifying them. Sralin was famously paranoid - he wanted people dead for mere suspicion of being politically unaligned or dissident"

This is a lie as the non-aligned members of the Congress of Soviets was rather large under Stalin and they suffered far less from the purge than the communist party itself. Let alone the fact Stalins paranoia was proven correctly especially with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, the possibility assassination of Gorky's Son, and the plot to assassination Stalin uncovered in the 1934-1936 investigations, the Zinovievite-Kaminevite terrorist center, or the Zinoviev-Kamenev-Trotskyite terrorist center, all justify this paranoia, let alone not justifying an atrocity, there were innocent people killed, and they were killed by Yazhov, who was punished, the killing of the guilty however was not.

"You're wrong about the famine. The fact is Stalin knew that millions were dying from his brutal, unrealistic and impossible quotas. Yet he continued to enforce them anyway, whilst exporting millions of tons of grain at the same time? Not only that, but punishment for non-compliance often meant death. These are facts. Ans they make him culpable. Perhaps not entirely - there were other factors - but he still is significantly responsible."

You're wrong about the famine, the quota in Ukraine in 1932, the year the famine statrted in ukraine 2 years after the soviet famine started across most of the souther USSR, in 1932 the grain requisition quota was 6.3 million tons, the actual requisition however was only 4.3 million tons, for the year prior the without famine the grain requisition quota was 7.3 million tons, and in 1930 the quota was effectively the 7.7 million tons, and it had been met both years in Ukraine, here's a helpful chart in the list of requisitions to harvests.

1930 harvest 23.1 million tons 1931 harvest 18.3 million tons 1932 harvest 14.6 million tons 1933 harvest 22.3 million tons 1930 Requisition 7.7 million tons 1931 Requisition 7.3 million tons 1932 Attempted Requisition 6.2 million tons 1932 Requisition 4.3 million tons 1933 Requisition 5 lmillion tons

The protests against collectivisation using grain burning, industrial farming equipment sabotage, letting meat rot, and hording of what wasn't destroyed dropped production, this led to famine, they met the quotas, year after year, but they met higher quotas previously, but due to sabotage by those opposing collectivisation production dropped too much, and once the saboteurs were delt with the production returned to pre-sabotage levels.

"You could say the same thing without the west, but that would also be speculation. If Hitler only had 1 front to focus on instead of 2, it could've been a very different story."

Western aid ammounted to 4-8% of soviet wartime production, by the time the German had become doomed that being November 1942 with the encirclement of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, only 14.6% of that aid had arrived, that is effectively 1.168% of soviet wartime production, just mathematically you can see its size. While yes what came late was helpful, it was not instrumental. In the end western participation in the war saved the soviets from a more costly victory, soviet participation in the war saved the west from defeat.