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Post by truecristian on Oct 7, 2021 20:12:03 GMT
 1 929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them.
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Post by truecristian on Oct 7, 2021 20:13:14 GMT
War, as Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, is the continuation of politics by other means. The politics in this case was the Sovietisation of Ukraine; the means was starvation. Food supply was not mismanaged by Utopian dreamers. It was weaponised. .
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 7, 2021 23:03:23 GMT
Is that from Anne Applebaum book called Red Famine ?
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Post by politicidal on Oct 9, 2021 0:20:56 GMT
Walter Duranty: Nothing to see here!
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