Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

• brainwashed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shall we examine the reasons for these famines?

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

  It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million).

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930–1933

  Major factors included the forced collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First Five-Year Plan and forced grain procurement from farmers. These factors in conjunction with a massive investment in heavy industry decreased the agricultural workforce.[11] It is estimated that 5.7[9] to 8.7[10][11] million people died from starvation across the Soviet Union.

  The policies directly caused the famines.

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  • clot27@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you read my comment? I explicitly mentioned “except famines”.

    Those wer ploicy failures with reason in nd beyond human control. But both of hose socialist nations never saw nother famine again and those nations used to have frequent famine before they became socialist. Both of those nations ensured no food shortage for anyone.

    Meanwhile currently weve got 6 to 9 million pwople dying evey year due to hunger despite us producing more than enough food to feed another 3 billion people - all that foos goes to waste because feeding the hungry doesnt generate profit.

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    • brainwashed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh you said except famines. Then yes, except the famines, the political progroms, the deportations, holding their population hostage, the failing econoics all was well.

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      • clot27@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Avg capitalist when approached with good arguments

        All of that happens under liberal democracy btw, you still didnt answer why is capitalism and liberalism starving 6 million people every year? Very succesful economics after all? Your whole elections are fought on deportation and political progroms I dont think they held their population hostage

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