Uncle Walter at the NYT told us otherwise.
Posted on 02/26/2022 4:34:30 AM PST by hardspunned
https://youtu.be/mZoUioqlZEs
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Necessary to remember.
The term Holodomor emphasises the famine’s man-made and allegedly intentional aspects such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs and restriction of population movement. As part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country, millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.
All caused by Communist mismanagement and cruelty.
It was less than 10 years before WWII.
Millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by the Russian (and Ukrainian) communists.
The Holodomor was the Ukrainian part of a broader rural-urban conflict that also affected other agricultural regions of the Soviet Union.
Communist theory as developed in the late 19th Century was primarily a theory of urban economics, focused on the workers. It ignored the peasantry and agricultural production.
In the early decades of the Soviet Union, the theory was applied to create an urban economy of heavy industry that produced more factories, industrial equipment, and arms and ammunition for the military. It did not produce much that could be traded to the peasants in return for food.
Consequently, the peasantry preferred to live as they always had, mainly producing food for their own consumption. There were several attempts to reorganize agricultural production, both by better incentives and by force. They met limited success and securing food for the ever increasing urban worker population continued to be a problem.
Eventually, Stalin solved the problem by sending the military and police into the countryside to requisition the available food supplies. The surviving rural population was put on collective farms and essentially converted from peasants to workers. Getting workers to produce by means of force, rather than incentives, was something that the Stalinist Soviet system could achieve.
Ilya had some very unkind words for Stalin, believe me.
You should take the time to watch the video. Nidel covers all the points you make and expands on the detail. Those Time Ghost guys do a great job!
Getting workers to produce by means of force, rather than incentives, was something that the Stalinist Soviet system could achieve.
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Of course, that took out the initiative to work hard. As a result, Soviet Union was always short of food.
Despite having the best agricultural lands in the world.
Tsarist Russia was the world greatest exporter of foodstuff and Ukraine now is getting there again!
If Jews vow to never forget the Holocaust, then Ukrainians get to never forget the Holodomar.
It may provide a reason for them fighting fiercely against the Russians.
All WW2 crimes must be blamed on the Germans, so that FDR’s beloved communists would not be blamed for crimes like the Holomodor.
And never forget that the NY Time covered up the Holomodor to protect communism in the public eye. While millions of Ukrainians starved to death. All to protect communism.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the Republicans MUST push for a National Holiday to remember the 100s of millions of victims of communism. The younger generations simply do not know because the media does not want them to know. The media wants the younger generation to embrace communism.
BFL
Well said!
Uncle Walter at the NYT told us otherwise.
There is a movie called “Bitter harvest” dealing with this tragedy. Very nice, but really tragic.
Never seen so many dead bodies in one movie!
The N. Y. Times Walter Duranty was awarded a Pulitzer for hiding the mass starvation from their readers. They still proudly display that Pulitzer to this day.
...FDR’s beloved communists...
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FDR fixed ag prices to the point of forcing farmers to dump milk and destroy crops & livestock.
I once asked my mother, a devout democrat & a city girl, about this and she snapped:”At least the farmers _had_ food.”
It is a common leftist ploy, divide and rule.
Only the Holodomor was real and never received the attention and condemnation it deserved.
A movie came out in 2019 called “Mr. Jones”, about the reporter Walter Jones who exposed the famine in the Ukraine to the western world.
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