>>>>The Ukrainians were not armed.<<
You can’t eat bullets.
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That is not their function.<<
So what are you going to do? Steal food from your neighbor? Shoot and eat your neighbor? It takes a fed community to even fight a revolution.
Read up on the Ukrainian famine where they systematically starved millions.
It doesn’t matter how many bullets you have at that point. Unless you stocked up on a year’s supply of food (or more), you can’t get food. No guns are going to help you when everyone else has gleaned the squirrels from your neighborhood. They could have had hundreds of guns. If they couldn’t move to another country (which they couldn’t), they were starved to death because the food supply was stolen from them and there was nothing to be had.
“they were starved to death because the food supply was stolen from them . . .”
Right.
They were not armed.