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Gotta start them off young (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://theholytachanka.com/wiki/the-holomodor/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, this random website is TOTALLY CREDIBLE.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

As opposed to the nothing that you offered.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The second issue is that one of the main causes of the famine was crop failure due to weather and disease, which is hardly something anyone can control no matter their intentions. However, the famine may have been further exacerbated by the agricultural collectivization and rapid industrialization policies of the Soviet Union.

The absolute idiocy of Stalin made the situation much worse and mostly everyone saw it coming. Stalin went ahead with anyway, forcing peasants into collective farms and then requisitioning by force all their grain. It sure kept the uppity peasants weaker and easier to control but pretty sick thing to do.

However, if these policies had not been carried out there could have been even more devastating consequences later.

Lmao. If they had properly planned things and didn't rush into industrialization with just ideological fervor, things could've been better. Famine would've been not as bad for sure and a lot of investments wouldn't have been wasted.