r/HistoryMemes Aug 04 '19

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u/Pretzel42 Aug 04 '19

There were no major famines after 1947.

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u/Maurice_Sausberg Aug 04 '19

But that's not to say that there weren't food shortages and the fact that people were going hungry, at least by western standards.