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2023-11-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Crying according to the manual. Why does the US need the Ukrainian Holodomor 90 years later?

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Posted by badanov 2023-11-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 But here's the thing British (Welsh) journalist Gareth Jones has never written about the famine in Ukraine. He talked about famine throughout the USSR..

Moreover, at the time Galicia - which is the principal seat of Ukrainian Nationalism - was in Poland.

p.s. Famines in Austrian Galicia were a common occurrence, particularly in the mid to late 19th century, as Galicia became heavily overpopulated. Triggered primarily by natural disasters such as floods and blights, famines, compounded by overpopulation, led to starvation, widespread malnutrition, epidemics, poverty, an average of 50,000 deaths a year, and from the 1870s to the beginning of World War I, emigration.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-14 01:56|| 2023-11-14 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, the Irish are still bitching about the Potato Famine.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-14 07:34|| 2023-11-14 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Pretty much everything wrong in N'awlins is still being blamed on Katrina...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-14 07:36|| 2023-11-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 It is true that the Soviets persecuted lots of people, confiscated land, equipment and food from lots of people.

However, Ukraine had the best lands for agriculture anywhere in the Soviet empire and the population of Ukraine was heavily populated compared with other parts of the Soviet Uunion.

Posted by lord garth 2023-11-14 14:48|| 2023-11-14 14:48|| Front Page Top

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