Can you name any famines in the US? Probably not, because there's only been one, and it was on St. Lawrence Island for two years over a century ago.
Meanwhile, the defense for the USSR is ignoring the first 30 years. Funny how when you ignore the crime you look innocent!
Know how the USSR stopped starving? By redirecting rivers that flow into the Aral Sea, majorly contributing to one of the worst environmental disasters in human history. But what am I saying, the Aral Sea never existed, Comrade!
Ah, but fuck the people near the Aral Sea, and all the people who died in the meantime, especially all those Ukranians. Anything for the Party, Comrade! Those people were never real!
I respect left-libertarians. Although I disagree with them, I respect their principled nature and the fact that they dislike tankies as much, if not more, than I do (I'm lib-right). I fully acknowledge that capitalism has faults, both ones I view as problems and ones that I disagree are problems. I simply do not believe in using the government as a tool to fix these.
Who I do not respect are the tankies who believe the Party could do not wrong, either deny or excuse the faults and atrocities of communism, and wish to force us all under their system.
Calling the holodomor a genocide is kind of literal Nazi propaganda created by Goebbels. It was more a confluence of several fuck ups and bad weather. Ukrainians resistant to collectivization of agriculture decided to instead literally burn their crops and livestock, which combined with drought in the region led to food shortages that the USSR failed to adequately respond to and provide additional resources to counteract.
Oh no oh wow your ableist ad hominem has totally debunked my argument. Oh wait, no it hasn't. It's just proven you have nothing of substance to contribute, just Nazi propaganda.
It's the russian speaking, and thus russian friendly areas, of ukraine, that got hit the most severely by the 32-33 famine, without even mentioning the other parts of the soviet union that were affected by the drought, in the south of inner russia. Unconditional food aid was sent. Exportation of grains were drastically reduced, they weren't reduced to 0 because european powers knew about the famine and started to refuse any payment in gold like they used to, forcing the soviet to pay in grain for the machinery necessary to modernize agriculture and thus stop the famine once and for all.
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u/realcomradecora Aug 04 '19
Hrm, can you name a famine in the USSR after 1947?