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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Which communist revolution? Russia was having famines before the soviet revolution. Its more reasonable to say communism solved the famines in russia and created them in china.

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  • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lysenkoism was the cause of both the Soviet and Chinese famines, a grand tragedy only possible under an authoritarian fever dream.

      Ignore the lessons of history if you want, it just makes you the villain of the next cycle.

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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There was no one single cause, and trying to deflect blame onto a single (exceptionally whackdoodle) pseudoscientific theory is intellectually dishonest at best, and regular dishonest at worst.

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      • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don't think I've ever up voted a comment of yours. But you are 100% on point about Lysenko. His promotion and the treatment of Vavilov are emblematic of a few of the many many flaws of Leninism. Vavilov was at least posthumously exonerated.Though he still died in a Siberian gulag for the crime of disagreeing with comrade Stalin, and sticking to the evidence.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t associate that with a revolution though. Similar to how the “Irish potato famine” was something the brits did to Ireland.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a precursor, sure. The OG 1918 October Revolution was fueled by a string of famines, exacerbated by the World War.

  The American Bonus Marchers of 1932 were also propelled by food shortages of The Dust Bowl.

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• leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair, fat cat capitalist hoarding wealth have caused exponentially more. Counted the homeless in your community lately. Year in, year out. They might be invisible to you … but they are there. Millions of them – year in, and year out. Starving. Homeless.

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