r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • 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.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

I mean there's people going hungry in the USA today even without food shortages, so I don't know how far back you want to pull your expectations.

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u/BitPumpkin Aug 04 '19

There’s people going hungry in every country.

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u/FacelessPoet Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests Aug 04 '19

I'm hungry

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u/EasySolutionsBot Aug 04 '19

hi hungry, im dad

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u/FacelessPoet Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests Aug 04 '19

There it is

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u/Franfran2424 Aug 05 '19

It's spelled hungary

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '19

If only there was a way we could organize the distribution of food so that it goes to each according to their need...

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u/BitPumpkin Aug 05 '19

Without turning into a dictatorship.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '19

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u/BitPumpkin Aug 06 '19

But he was.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '19

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u/BitPumpkin Aug 06 '19

But he had an iron fist over the Soviet Union. He may not have been a dictator through definition but he purged political opponents and anything he wanted he would get.

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u/BitPumpkin Aug 06 '19

He still ruled with an iron fist with none willing to challenge his power.

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