The Holodomor - extermination through hunger

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A man-caused disaster....

In the spring of 1933, the rural population of Ukraine, its peasants, were dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, half of them children. The land that was known worldwide as the breadbasket of Europe was being ravaged by a man-made famine of unprecedented scale. It was engineered by Stalin and his hangmen, to teach Ukraine’s independent farmers “a lesson they would not forget” for resisting collectivization, which meant giving up their land and livestock to the state. (Ukraine was then under Soviet domination). Moreover, it was meant to deal “a crushing blow” to any national aspirations of the Ukrainian people, 80 percent of whom were peasant farmers.

In less than 18 months, this famine genocide took the lives of up to 10,000,000 innocent men, women and children in Ukraine and in the mostly ethnically Ukrainian areas of the northern Caucasus. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was denying the famine, and exporting millions of tons of grain from Ukraine – enough to have fed the entire population.
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Ukrainian Famine/Genocide 1932-33
 
Okay... the opposite of the extremism of nationalization/collectivitism... is de-regulated capitalism.

Manchester, UK during the height of the Industrial Revolution. 10-20 hours labour hours. Children were used. There were no safeguards for dangerous machines and toxic chemicals. ENtire families had to work at the factories because they couldn't afford anything. They were forced to live in slums and run-down dwellings separate from the factory owners and landlords. Smogs were commonplace. Large-scale unemployments during massive economic busts were common. All for what? So they can get a taste of that wonderful orange from a tropical country?

:)
 
souggy said:
Might want to owe up to the oppression of Native Ameircans before drawing non-existent connections.
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If you want to start a thread on that, you're welcomed to do so. This is about the Holodomor. Being snitty doesn't help.
 
souggy said:
Might want to owe up to the oppression of Native Ameircans before drawing non-existent connections.
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I don't understand why you're talking about Native Americans... Then... talking about non-existent connections??

Do you have something to pick?
 
If you study the reign of Stalin, there are many more horror stories.

I think the evil was more in the dictator himself than the concept of collectivization.
 
Well, they were once "benign" at some point of their lives until certain idealogies took root which led to irrational thinking.
 
Bottesini said:
If you study the reign of Stalin, there are many more horror stories.

I think the evil was more in the dictator himself than the concept of collectivization.
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Yeah. I don't know who's worse, Hilter or Stalin.
 
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