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Famines aren't unique to socialism lol
The soviet famine was directly related to a failure of leadership, much like the entire Soviet empire.
Sorry you break up your retarded tankie party celebrating failure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
There was definitely nothing that could have been done to prevent the great famine of india (caused by British imperialism 5.5mil dead), or the famine in northern china (caused by british imperialism 9-13mil dead) or the indian famine of 1896-1897 (caused by british imperialism 2mil dead) or the morrocan famine of 1940-1948 (caused by french imperialism 200,000 dead) or the current west supported famine in the gaza strip.
These were and are not deliberate policy choices /s
What even are you trying to argue? That the soviet famine wasn't a result of abject policy failure?
https://www.historyhit.com/soviet-famine-causes/
Never Forget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
During the 1932 Holodomor Famine, the USSR sent aid to affected regions in an attempt to alleviate the famine. According to Mark Tauger in his article, The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933:
Some bring up massive grain exports during the famine to show that the Soviet Union exported food while Ukraine starved. This is fallacious for a number of reasons, but most importantly of all the amount of aid that was sent to Ukraine alone actually exceeded the amount that was exported at the time.
According to Tauger, the reason why more aid was not provided was because of the low harvest
Tauger is not a communist, and ultimately this specific article takes the view that the low harvest was caused by collectivization (he factors in the natural causes of the famine in later articles, based on how he completely neglects to mention weather in this article at all its clear that his position shifted over the years). However, its interesting to see that the Soviets really did try to alleviate the famine as best as they could.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2500600
Arguing that famines were a result of abject policy failure is the height of idiocy given that these famines were happening before Soviets took over and the Soviets actually stopped them. You're either intentionally lying or you're ignorant on the subject you're opining on. Either way not a good look.
Bro has not read the wikipedia holodomor sources 💀
Harvest of sorrow is STILL being cited