Britain was insisting Ireland continue it’s exportation of cash crops even as the Irish were starving. So, yeah the potato famine was largely avoidable.
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Wealthy British landowners lavished themselves whilst Irish tenants starved to death. In saying all this. I condemn the Soviet commies for the famine in Ukraine. In every conversatuon I have with a commie apologist I raise the famaine as an example of communist brutality whilst pointing out commies in the west glossed over it or down played it. But if the West is going to get mushroomed over past injustices and current occupstions they could at least call on their member states to end their own occupations